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Merope : a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants

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Type of record: Book

Title: Merope : a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/VOL

Creator(s): Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Additional creator(s): Voltaire (1694-1778) (Other)

Related people: Voltaire

Publisher: Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katharine-Street, in the Strand

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1750

Language: English

Size and medium: [viii], 94 [i.e. 64] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282675

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001586019705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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"With an additional new scene."


The text has been extensively revised - partly rewritten, in part expanded, and in part abridged - but the number of scenes is in fact one less than in the edition of 1749, Scenes 4 and 5 of Act 5 having been run together to form one continuous scene (4). The fifth (penultimate) scene of the act is numbered 4 in error.


P. 64 misnumbered 94.


Adapted from Voltaire.

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