The Clandestine Marriage. A Comedy
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- The Clandestine Marriage. A Comedy
- Jaar:
- 1792
- URL:
- https://books.google.hn/books?id=Xvv4MAAACAAJ
- Onderwerp:
- Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, United Kingdom)
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, United Kingdom)
18th Century (1701-1800)
Play (theater)
Comedy
London (United Kingdom) - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- London Bell 1792
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C2.44 06I16 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- [i]-128 pages engraved frontispiece
- Nota:
- Originally published in 1766
premiered in Drury Lane, 11 December 1766
adapted in the year of this publication, 1792, into the libretto for Cimarosa's 'Il matrimonio segreto'
Frontispiece engraving by John Thornthwaite, (b. 1740) after Samuel De Wilde (1751-1832) depicting Mr King as Lord Ogleby in Act 4 "I'll not be left among your Sterlings, your"; standing, whole length, holding tobacco and snuff box, facing to the front; in oval frame.
Contains role assignment and casting for Drury Lane
Prologue by David Garrick spoken by Mr Holland
Epilogue in the form of a small play for 8 characters by David Garrick. Consist of spoken text interspersed with a Song, an Air, recitatives and a Chorus.
the publisher, John Bell (1745-1831), was an important printer and typographer whose bookshop, 'British Library', was located in the Strand and who pioneered the regular s (instead of the long s) in English printing; - Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000001324