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Paolino and Carolina are secretly married in the household of her father Geronimo. Paolino tries to arrange a match between Count Robinson and Carolina’s sister Elisetta, but Robinson is drawn to Carolina instead. After a series of misunderstandings, Paolino and Carolina reveal their marriage; the family forgives them, while Robinson and Elisetta agree to marry.
Polly's heavy novel reading shapes her ideas of romance and life. Her father plans to marry her to wealthy Ledger, but she prefers Scribble, an attorney's clerk who shares her self-conscious use of novelistic conventions. When they escape, Ledger brings them back, only for the family to discover that the couple has already begun marrying by proclaiming their banns.
Merchant Mr Sterling seeks to marry his elder daughter to Sir John Melvil, who loves her younger sister Fanny. Fanny is secretly married to the clerk Lovewell, and her efforts to avoid Melvil lead to her being proposed to his uncle Lord Ogleby; when the truth emerges, she and Lovewell are forgiven.
Satyrs and fairies guard Windsor Castle and its inhabitants during ceremonial occasions. The masque concludes with a banquet attended by the King and Queen.
Mrs. Oakly intercepts a letter and mistakes a family elopement for her husband’s affair, while Harriet Russet resists the coercive Lord Trinket and seeks to marry Charles Oakly. The Major helps Mr. Oakly stand up to his jealous wife as the two plots resolve in reconciliation and marriage.
When a theatre manager learns that all his actors have left, he cancels the season, only for the actors to turn up after all. The comedy includes theatrical in-jokes about Colman himself.
A satire, the work depicts a naive student of Oxford University travelling south to London where he becomes mixed up with shady company, only to be rescued by a fellow undergraduate from Oxford.
The Village Lawyer is a 1787 comedy play by the British writer George Colman the Elder, although it has also been mistakenly attributed to William Macready. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 28 August 1787. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 5 August 1794 It was also staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The original Haymarket cast included John Edwin as Sheepface, John Bannister as Scout, William Henry Moss as Justice Mittimus, William Parsons as Snarl and Lydia Webb as Mrs Scout.
Tit for Tat is a 1786 comedy play by the British writer George Colman the Elder. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 29 August 1786. The original Haymarket cast included John Palmer as Villamour, Cockran Joseph Booth as Old Meanwell, William Davies as Young Meanwell, Robert Palmer as Skipwell, Elizabeth Farren as Florinda and Mary Bulkley as Letty. The Irish premiere took place at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 26 February 1787 It also subsequently appeared at both the Covent Garden and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane theatres.
Paolino and Carolina are secretly married in the household of her father Geronimo. Paolino tries to arrange a match between Count Robinson and Carolina’s sister Elisetta, but Robinson is drawn to Carolina instead. After a series of misunderstandings, Paolino and Carolina reveal their marriage; the family forgives them, while Robinson and Elisetta agree to marry.
Polly's heavy novel reading shapes her ideas of romance and life. Her father plans to marry her to wealthy Ledger, but she prefers Scribble, an attorney's clerk who shares her self-conscious use of novelistic conventions. When they escape, Ledger brings them back, only for the family to discover that the couple has already begun marrying by proclaiming their banns.
Merchant Mr Sterling seeks to marry his elder daughter to Sir John Melvil, who loves her younger sister Fanny. Fanny is secretly married to the clerk Lovewell, and her efforts to avoid Melvil lead to her being proposed to his uncle Lord Ogleby; when the truth emerges, she and Lovewell are forgiven.
Satyrs and fairies guard Windsor Castle and its inhabitants during ceremonial occasions. The masque concludes with a banquet attended by the King and Queen.
Mrs. Oakly intercepts a letter and mistakes a family elopement for her husband’s affair, while Harriet Russet resists the coercive Lord Trinket and seeks to marry Charles Oakly. The Major helps Mr. Oakly stand up to his jealous wife as the two plots resolve in reconciliation and marriage.
When a theatre manager learns that all his actors have left, he cancels the season, only for the actors to turn up after all. The comedy includes theatrical in-jokes about Colman himself.
A satire, the work depicts a naive student of Oxford University travelling south to London where he becomes mixed up with shady company, only to be rescued by a fellow undergraduate from Oxford.
The Village Lawyer is a 1787 comedy play by the British writer George Colman the Elder, although it has also been mistakenly attributed to William Macready. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 28 August 1787. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 5 August 1794 It was also staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The original Haymarket cast included John Edwin as Sheepface, John Bannister as Scout, William Henry Moss as Justice Mittimus, William Parsons as Snarl and Lydia Webb as Mrs Scout.
Tit for Tat is a 1786 comedy play by the British writer George Colman the Elder. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 29 August 1786. The original Haymarket cast included John Palmer as Villamour, Cockran Joseph Booth as Old Meanwell, William Davies as Young Meanwell, Robert Palmer as Skipwell, Elizabeth Farren as Florinda and Mary Bulkley as Letty. The Irish premiere took place at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 26 February 1787 It also subsequently appeared at both the Covent Garden and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane theatres.