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The disappointment: or, The force of credulity. A new American comic-opera, of two acts. By Andrew Barton, Esq; [Four lines of verse]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1867 Aa767 N51
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 1848
- Leacock, John, 1729-1802 14182, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- v,[4],10-58p. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : [s.n.], Printed in the year, M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]
- Notes:
- Without music.
- The authorship has long been disputed. Variously attributed to Andrew Barton (probably a pseudonym), John Leacock, and Thomas Forrest. Most recently and most convincingly attributed to Francis Hopkinson. Cf. Shepard, Mary D. "Forrest's Curious Old Play: or, Hopkinson's Disappointment" in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88 (1994): p. 37-52.
- Ascribed to the Philadelphia press of William Goddard by Evans.
- "Epilogue."--p. [57]-58. Errata note, p. 58.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 10554; Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 13
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