The beggar's opera : As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Written by Mr. Gay
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Type of record: Book
Title: The beggar's opera : As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Written by Mr. Gay
Classmark: BC Lt/WEN
Creator(s): Gay, John (1685-1732)
Publisher: printed for J. Wenman
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1778
Language: English
Size and medium: 18p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/284927
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002016799705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Possibly issued with 'The chaplet. A musical entertainment.' by Moses Mendez.
Two columns to a page.
Additional description
Bound with 35 other publications in volume lettered: PLAYS , from Wingfield family library, Onslow (v.1). Volume contents: 1. Young, E.: The revenge, 1777. -- 2. Gay, J.: The Beggar's opera, 1778. -- 3. Mendez, M.: The chaplet, [1777]. -- 4. Addison, J.: Cato, 1777. -- 5. Hoadly, B.: The suspicious husband, 1777. -- 6. Dodsley, R.: The king and the miller of Mansfield, 1777. -- 7. Rowe, N.: Jane Shore, 1779. -- 8. Centlivre, S.: The busy body, 1779. -- 9. Carey, H.: The contrivances, [1779]. -- 10. Shakespeare, W.: Othello, 1777. -- 11. Addison, J.: The drummer, 1777. -- 12. Carey, H.: Chrononhotonthologos, [1777]. -- 13. Hill, A.: Merope, 1777. -- 14. Shakespeare, W.: As you like it, 1777. -- 15. Cibber, C.: Damon and Phillida, [1777]. -- 16. Rowe, N.: The fair penitent, 1777. -- 17. Buckingham, G.V.: The rehearsal, 1777. -- 18. Theobald, L.: Orpheus and Eurydice, [1777]. -- 19. Shakespeare, W.: Cymbeline, 1777. -- 20. Dalton, J.: Comus, 1777. -- 21. Dodsley, R.: The toy-shop,
[1777]. -- 22. Philips, A.: The distrest mother, 1777. -- 23. Shakespeare, W.: The merchant of Venice, 1777. -- 24. Coffey, C.: The devil to pay, [1777]. -- 25. Lillo, G.: George Barnwell, 1777. -- 26. Fletcher, J.: Rule a wife and have a wife, 1777. -- 27. Fielding, H.: The virgin unmask'd, [1777]. -- 28. Thomson, J.: Tancred and Sigismunda, 1777. -- 29. Farquhar, G.: The inconstant, 1777. -- 30. Carey, H.: The dragon of Wantley, [1777]. -- 31. Smith, E.: Phaedra and Hippolitus, 1777. -- 32. Farquhar, G.: The constant couple, 1777. -- 33. Dodsley, R.: Sir John Cockle at court, [1777]. -- 34. Brown, J.: Barbarossa, 1777. -- 35. Dryden, J.: The Spanish fryar, 1777. -- 36. Hawkesworth, J.: Edgar and Emmeline, [1777]
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