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A tragedy which was a revision of Coleridge's play Osorio. It features the aristocratic hero, Don Alvar.
mssLA 1753
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Manuscript includes passage in text deleted, and marked too personal, in margin, by Larpent. There is a copy of note, Larpent to Kemble, objecting to a Passage in the 2d Act, which is of so personal a Nature that it ought to be omitted.
mssLA 842
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A play which was a Shakespearean hoax written by William Henry Ireland, who had claimed to have been the rightful descendant to one of Shakespeare's plays. In the play, King of the Britons Constantius offers half his crown to his adviser Vortigern.
mssLA 1110
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Adaptation from the Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher first published in 1647. This version was probably altered by Garrick although it is not on any list of works edited by him. The play is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The gender roles are reversed and it is the husband Petruchio who is 'tamed' by his wife Maria.
mssLA 133
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Address to the Revived Play of 'The Duke of Milan', of a theatre theme, it references Shakespeare.
mssLA 1914
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A play written by the sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It seemed to have been performed only once.
mssLA 1714
