The comical history of Don Quixote : As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset-Garden, by Their Majesties servants. Part I
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Type of record: Book
Title: The comical history of Don Quixote : As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset-Garden, by Their Majesties servants. Part I
Other titles: The comical history of Don Quixote
Classmark: BC Lt/FLE
Creator(s): D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
Additional creator(s): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616) (Other); Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) (Other)
Related people: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; Purcell, Henry
Publisher: printed for Samuel Briscoe, at the corner of Charles-Street, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1694
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 50 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/278653
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000812499705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
A play based on Cervantes' 'Don Quixote'.
"Certain of the songs in the first and second parts of D'Urfey's 'Don Quixote' (1694) were by [Henry] Purcell,..." -- DNB.
At the foot of p.50 are some advertisements of "Books printed for, and sold by R. Wellington".
Indexed in: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) D2712A.
Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway 503a, i.e. second edition of Part I of this year, signed A-G⁴, H¹ and the title-page reads "As it was acted".
Additional description
Bound with seven other publications in a volume lettered: FLETCHER & OTHERS. THE CHANCES ETC. 1694-1711. Volume contents: 1. Fletcher, J.: The chances, 1705 -- 2. D'Urfey, T.: A fond husband, 1711 -- 3. Shadwell, T.: Epsom-Wells, 1704 -- 4. Dryden, J.: A state of innocence, 1677 -- 5. Villiers, G.: The rehearsal, 1711 -- 6. Howard, J.: All mistaken, 1710 -- 7. D'Urfey, T.: The comical history of Don Quixote, Part I, 1694 -- 8. D'Urfey, T.: The comical history of Don Quixote, Part II, 1702
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