By special command. For the benefit of Ireland, for near two years in Rehearsal, and will be performed at the Great Booth in College Green, on Tuesday the 7th of October, 1753, a tragi comical sarcical entertainment, not acted these three years, called the contrast between court and country, [electronic resource] : With the humours of Roger de Coverly, all the parts will be disposed of to the best advantage, with entire new dresses, all of ------Irish manufacture, ------ and other decorations suitable to the play. With a prologue and epilogue suitable to the occasion. To which will be added, a pantomine entertaiment, called the groans of the disappointed. The part caiphas to be performed by black and all black, a devise, formerly minister at Bantam, but disgraced and lately imported here. With several pieces of machinery, scenery, sinkings, flyings, bowings, cringings, entirely new in this kingdom. The dead man brought to life or D----t in a cradle. The principal characters in the play, will be printed in the bills the day of performance. The tickets given out for places, pensions and promises, by caiphas and briarius's for the last performance, but refused for being counterseits, will not be taken in the above night.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amusements--Ireland--Early works to 1800.

Amusements.

Genre:

Advertisements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet )

Place of Publication:

[Dublin : s.n., 1753]

Notes:

'At the great booth in College Green' = the Irish Houses of Parliament.

A satirical advertisement.

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T213523.

OCLC:

510563036