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Leicester : a tragedy / by William Dunlap, Esq. As performed at the New-York Theatre ; with the original cast.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection 43.3 L86a v.22
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunlap, William, 1766-1839.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588--Drama.
- Leicester, Robert Dudley.
- Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Promptbooks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 89 unnumbered pages-150 pages ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by David Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, 1807.
- Notes:
- First acted under title: The fatal deception; or The progress of guilt.
- Extracted from Dunlap's Dramatic works (Philadelphia, 1806), with Longworth's title leaf inserted.
- Includes Dramatis person.
- "The following poem, my first effort in tragic composition, and the first American tragedy produced upon the stage, was written in the year 1790, and first played, at New York, in 1794."
- Local Notes:
- Bound in The English and American stage, New York, 1804-1818, v. 22.
- Cited in:
- BAL, 5003
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 12480
- Stoddard, R.E. Longworth imprints, 101.
- Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 85
- OCLC:
- 11819090
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