Manuscripts
Harlequin's Invasion
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Harlequin's Invasion. Pantomime. David Garrick
Manuscripts
No application. Prod. D.L., Dec. 31, 1759. MS: incomplete, containing only one scene. Printed in full in Three Plays by David Garrick, ed. Elizabeth P. Stein (1926), from a MS in the Boston Public Library.
LA 166
Florizel and Perdita
Manuscripts
Manuscript copy containing a few corrections by Garrick. An adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'The Winters Tale'.
mssLA 122
The Busy Body, Epilogue to
Manuscripts
Manuscript copy of the Epilogue to The Busy Body starring David Garrick.
mssLA 151
Midsummer Night's Dream, New Additions to the
Manuscripts
A Midsummer Night's Dream with alterations, additions and several new songs by David Garrick.
mssLA 229
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Six English plays by David Garrick and others
Manuscripts
Bound volume containing handwritten late 18th century copies of six English plays in various hands, collated by John Philip Kemble in 1800. The titles consist of Fortune's Taske, or The Fickle Fair One by John Horne (HM 11); The Meeting of the Company; or Baye's Art of Acting by David Garrick (HM 12); The Jubilee by Garrick (HM 13); The Nice Wanton (HM 14); A Warning for Faire Women (HM 15); and The Marriage of Witte and Science (HM 16). Laid in are two clipped engravings: one of men and a woman standing in a room with a dog in the foreground by J. Clark and "The Wonder" by Burney, printed for J. Bell, 1792. The title page of each play has the handwritten note of John Philip Kemble: "Collated & Perfect, J.P.K. 1800."
mssHM 11-16
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Harlequin's Jubilee, Songs, Etc. Henry Woodward
Manuscripts
No application. Prod. C.G., Jan. 27, 1770. MS: apparently incomplete, containing one song, The Magpies, a Ballad, and four lines, in hand of George Colman, of Last Song and Chorus. Comp. Songs, Choruses, &c....of Harlequin's Jubilee, 1770 (K-D 12): The Magpies identical; lines from Last Song differ slightly.
LA 304