Flora : an opera. As it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Being the farce of The country-wake, alter'd after the manner of The beggar's opera. To which is added, the musick engrav'd on copper-plates
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Type of record: Book
Title: Flora : an opera. As it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Being the farce of The country-wake, alter'd after the manner of The beggar's opera. To which is added, the musick engrav'd on copper-plates
Classmark: BC Lt/DOG
Creator(s): Bates, William (fl. 1750-1780)
Additional creator(s): Hippisley, John (1748) (Other); Dogget, Thomas (1721) (Other)
Related people: Hippisley, John; Dogget, Thomas
Publisher: Printed for T. Wood, in Little-Britain, and sold by most of the booksellers of London and Westminster
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1729
Language: English
Size and medium: 32 p., 8 p. of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/276558
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000382299705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Adapted from 'Hob:or, the country-wake', ostensibly by Colley Cibber, but itself an adaptation of Thomas Dogget's The country-wake.
The present version is printed in Cibber's 'Dramatic works', 1777, but is generally attributed to John Hippisley.
"[Price 1s.]".
Title page includes line from Virgil (cf. ESTC N009842; N009841 has no such line).
Text includes 25 songs (numbered I-XX, XX, XXI-XXIV), all except XV and XXIV with tune titles. The engraved music (vocal line only) does not include the tune of XX.
The music is by William Bates (airs only).
Indexed in: ESTC N009842.
Additional description
Title-leaf outer corner at foot torn away (repaired), touching imprint. Spine lettered: DOGGET: COUNTRY-WAKE ALTER'D: FLORA
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