MARC Record
Leader
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1317
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a| eng
100
a| Brown, John
d| 1715-1766
4| aut
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2392898
9| 5976
245
a| Barbarossa
b| A Tragedy
260
a| London
b| Bell
c| 1795
300
a| [i]-82 pages
b| engraved frontispiece
500
a| John Brown was an English Anglican priest, playwright and essayist. His major popular success was the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (2 vols., 1757–1758), a bitter satire. Brown knew Charles Avison, the Newcastle organist and composer, and wrote 'A dissertation on the rise, union, and power, the progressions, separations and corruptions of poetry and music' (1763).
500
a| Brown's play premiered in 1754 at Drury Lane and was originally published in 1755
500
a| 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
500
a| Frontispiece engraving by William Satchwell Leney (1769-1831) after Samuel De Wilde (1751-1832) depicting Miss Miller as Zaphira in Act 2 scene 1 "O my heart. Can I bear this. Inhuman tyrant! Curses on my head." standing, whole length, gesturing up towards the sky with right hand clenched to a fist, facing to the left; in oval frame.
500
a| Contains a prologue by David Garrick "and spoken by him in the character of a Country Boy"
500
a| Contains an Epilogue by David Garrick, "spoken by Mr Woodward in the character of a fine gentleman" / Henry Woodward (1714-1777)
500
a| Contains role assignment and casting for Covent Garden
590
a| Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the manager. The Lines distinguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation
610
0
a| Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, United Kingdom)
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55018
9| 23267
648
0
a| 18th Century (1701-1800)
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7015
9| 20899
650
0
a| Play (theater)
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25379
9| 21414
651
0
a| London (United Kingdom)
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84
9| 123
700
4| aut
a| Garrick, David
d| 1717-1779
1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q222390
9| 5983
856
u| https://books.google.be/books?id=R34uAAAAYAAJ
3| Google Books
942
c| BOO
920
a| boek
852
b| ORPH
c| ORPH
j| ORPH.KTS1 C2.44 06I09
999
d| 1317