The chances : a comedy, as it acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
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Type of record: Book
Title: The chances : a comedy, as it acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
Classmark: BC Lt/WEN
Creator(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
Additional creator(s): Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of (1628-1687) (Other); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) (Other)
Related people: Buckingham, George Villiers; Beaumont, Francis
Publisher: printed for Harrison and Co.... and sold, likewise, by J. Wenman
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1780
Language: English
Size and medium: 21, [1]p., plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283852
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001844939705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Beaumont apparently had no hand in the play. This is the version as altered by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
Illustration: portrait of J. Henderson engraved by G. Terry dated 1 Feb 1780.
Additional description
Bound with 35 other publications in volume lettered: PLAYS , from Wingfield family library, Onslow (v.4). Volume contents: 1. Havard, W.: King Charles I, 1779. -- 2. Farquhar, G.: Sir Harry Wildair, 1779. -- 3. Jennens, C.: Saul, [1779]. -- 4. Lee, N.: Theodosius, 1779. -- 5. Vanbrugh, J.: The city wives confederacy, 1779. -- 6. Morell, T.: Solomon, [1779]. -- 7. Colman, G.: Philaster, 1780. -- 8. Jonson, B.: Every man in his humour, 1780. -- 9. Shakespeare, W.: Coriolanus, 1780. -- 10. Fletcher, J.: the chances, 1780. -- 11. Morell, T.: Jephtah, [1780?]. -- 12. Humphreys, S.: Esther, [1780?]. -- 13. Whitehead, W.: The Roman father, 1780. -- 14. Moore, E.: The foundling, 1780. -- 15. Cibber, C.: School-boy or, comical rival, [1780?]. -- 16. Sophocles: Electra, 1780. -- 17. Brome, R.: The jovial crew, 1780. -- 18. Dryden, J.: Oedipus, 1780. -- 19. Hawkesworth, J.: Amphitryon, 1780. -- 20. Morell, T.: Theodora, [1780?]. -- 21. Foote, S.: The Englishman returned from Paris, [1780?]. --
22. Shakespeare, W.: Timon of Athens, 1780. -- 23. Steele, R.: The funeral, 1780. -- 24. Fielding, H.: The Covent-Garden tragedy, [1780]. -- 25. Shakespeare, W.: Macbeth, 1780. -- 26. Foote, S.: The patron, 1780. -- 27. Hawkesworth, J.: Zimri, [1780?]. -- 28. Shakespeare, W.: King Henry V, 1780. -- 29. Fielding, H.: The debauchees, 1780. -- 30. Garrick, D.: Catharine and Petruchio, [1780?]. -- 31. Lillo, G.: Fatal curiosity, 1780. -- 32. Foote, S.: The Lyar, 1780. -- 33. Home, J.: Douglas, 1780. -- 34. Foote, S.: The mayor of Garratt, 1780. -- 35. Garrick, D.: Lethe, [1780?]. 36. Hippisley, J.: Flora, [1780?]
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