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The Fairy-queen: an opera. Represented at the Queen's Theatre by their Majesties servants.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC65 Se785 692f
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Fairy queen. Libretto
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Librettos--Early works to 1800.
- Operas.
- Operas--Librettos.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Librettos.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 52 pages ; 23 cm
- Fingerprint:
- d.d, w,r! e.ve toAr (3) 1692 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head, in Chancery-Lane, 1692.
- Notes:
- An adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer night's dream ascribed to Settle.--Cf. Brown, F.C. Settle, p. 95-96.
- Libretto only. The music was written by Henry Purcell.--Cf. New Grove.
- On t.p. below imprint: Where you may have compleat Sets of Mr. Dryden's Works in four Volumes; the Plays in the order they were Written.
- In this issue there are [8] preliminary pages: p. [1] t.p., p. [2] blank, p. [3]-[4] preface, [5] prologue, p. [6] blank, [7] "The names of the persons", p. [8] blank.
- Quire B in 2 settings: on leaf B1r, stage directions begin: Setting 1) "Enter Duke", or setting 2) "Enter Quince".
- Quire G in 2 settings; leaf G1r, line 4 has: Setting A) "flower" or Setting B) "Flower".
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has [8] preliminary pages in the following order: p. [1] t.p., p. [2] blank, p. [3] prologue, p. [4] blank, p. [5]-[6] preface, p. [7] "The names of the persons", p. [8] blank.
- Culture Class Collection has setting 1 for quire B and setting A for quire G.
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S2681
- Woodward & McManaway 1034
- ESTC, R22092
- OCLC:
- 4878440
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