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Oh! It's Impossible

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Description: There are some corrections in the manuscript. John Kemble made the application for Tate Wilkinson.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1780 February 4
Call number: mssLA 511
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Oh! It's Impossible. Comedy, 5 acts. John Philip Kemble, from Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors
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Application Feb. 4, 1780, John Kemble for Tate Wilkinson, York. Prod. 1780 (?). MS: some corrections. J.P.C. in B.D.: It is an alteration of the Comedy of Errors with the names of the characters all changed and the scene laid in London.
LA 511
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No application. Prod. D.L., Oct. 17, 1758 (originally, H2, Apr. 22, 1747). MS: consists of the Lady Pentweazle scene from Act I of Taste, set in a new frame, with Puff omitted; second act contains the burlesque rehearsal. (See Tate Wilkinson, Wandering Patentee [1795], I, 285; IV, 237.) See LA 93 and 194.
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The Election of the Managers
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Manuscript title page states, 'for the opening of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. 1784'. Includes corrections, some marks, by Examiner [?] and prologue and songs. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: Larpent's copy has the author's corrections and omissions -- It was objected to on account chiefly of personal allusions to the instrumentality of the Duchess of Devonshire in the Westminster. Elect: of 1784. See LA 659.
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