The School for Wives. A Comedy
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- The School for Wives. A Comedy
- Jaar:
- 1792
- URL:
- https://books.google.be/books?id=49ZVAAAAcAAJ Google Books
- Onderwerp:
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, United Kingdom)
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, United Kingdom)
18th Century (1701-1800)
Play (theater)
Comedy
London (United Kingdom) - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- London Bell 1792
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C2.44 06I12 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- [i]-132 pages engraved frontispiece
- Editie:
- 1st ed.
- Nota:
- 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
Frontispiece engraving by John Thornthwaite, (b. 1740) after Samuel De Wilde (1751-1832) depicting Mrs Hunter as Mrs Belville in Act 5Scene 3 "And when you next disturbe à tete a tete..." ; standing, whole length, gesturing with left hand, holding a mask in her right, facing to the front; in oval frame.
premiered in Drury Lane, 11 December 1773
Prologue spoken by Mr King and Miss Younge
Contains role assignment and casting for Drury Lane - Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000001320