Dido, Queen of Carthage
Dido, queen of Carthage, loves Aeneas but refuses to marry Iarbas. Aeneas leaves for Italy after his father’s ghost reminds him of his duty; as Carthage is besieged, Dido dies amid the flames.
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Dido, queen of Carthage, loves Aeneas but refuses to marry Iarbas. Aeneas leaves for Italy after his father’s ghost reminds him of his duty; as Carthage is besieged, Dido dies amid the flames.
Indiscretion is an 1800 comedy play by the British writer Prince Hoare. The original Drury Lane cast included Thomas King as Sir Marmaduke Maxim, John Bannister as Burly, William Barrymore as Clermont, Robert Palmer as Frederic, Charles Holland as Gaylove, Ralph Wewitzer as Lounge, Alexander Webb as Francis, Montague Talbot as Algernon, Jane Pope as Victoria and Dorothea Jordan as Julia.
Shipwrecked Frederick and Robin reach farmer George Crop’s home. Frederick had pretended to be poor and was rejected by Crop’s daughter Louisa; he later disguises himself to convince her he died at sea, then reveals himself. Robin loves Margaretta, while Mr. Endless schemes to dispossess Crop and take his wife Dorothy. Robin’s keg from the ship reveals gold, and Margaretta exposes Endless hiding in a sack. Crop and Dorothy reconcile, and Frederick and Louisa reunite.
The Three and the Deuce is a 1795 English afterpiece with libretto by Prince Hoare and music by Stephen Storace. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 2 September 1795. It was later revived at Drury Lane, and "with great success" by Robert William Elliston. Some sources suggest it was originally not very popular but grew into a very favorably received piece. The piece was known for having one actor play three different roles, the three "Singles". One song in the piece. "Little Taffline", is referenced in the Dickens' novel David Copperfield. The Memoirs of John Bannister published in 1839, provide this summary of the play: Toward the close of the season, (2nd September,) "The Three and the Deuce," a new comedy by Prince Hoare, called forth Bannister's versatile powers. The author has placed in the same inn at Cheltenham three brothers, Pertinax, Peregrine, and Percival Single, not less alike than the Menaechmi of Plautus, or the Antipholises of Shakspeare, but very different in their propensities. Pertinax is studious, grave, sententious; Peregrine volatile, active, enterprising; while poor Percival, a mere idiot, is only permitted to leave home under the protection of an Irish tutor (God save the mark!) named Mac Floggum. Bannister played the three brothers, and preserved, with admirable fidelity, their separate identity. The mistakes and confusion which arise from each being seen separately, and mistaken for one of the others, form an amusing, and sometimes interesting entanglement. Grizzle, a servant of Pertinax, is driven almost beyond his senses at the unexpected sallies of his master; and, at last, Percival is rescued from the stern dominion of Mac Floggum, to undergo a more gentle captivity with Taffline, an interesting little Welsh girl, admirably played by Mrs. Bland. The piece was very favourably received; and Bannister, and, after him, Elliston, acquired great applause in the three Singles. The story was said in contemporary British sources to directly derive from the Spanish comedy Los Tres Mellizos popular in Madrid, though remodeled and made English by Hoare. Italian playwright Antonio Collalto wrote Tre gemelli veneziani (Three Venetian Twins) in 1773, which was inspired by The Venetian Twins (1747) by Carlo Goldoni, but to which the twins were made into triplets., The Collalto play was translated into French by P.-A. Lefèvre de Marcouville as Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens, and the Spanish translation upon which Hoare is said to have relied was Los Tres Mellizos.
Dido, queen of Carthage, loves Aeneas but refuses to marry Iarbas. Aeneas leaves for Italy after his father’s ghost reminds him of his duty; as Carthage is besieged, Dido dies amid the flames.
Indiscretion is an 1800 comedy play by the British writer Prince Hoare. The original Drury Lane cast included Thomas King as Sir Marmaduke Maxim, John Bannister as Burly, William Barrymore as Clermont, Robert Palmer as Frederic, Charles Holland as Gaylove, Ralph Wewitzer as Lounge, Alexander Webb as Francis, Montague Talbot as Algernon, Jane Pope as Victoria and Dorothea Jordan as Julia.
Shipwrecked Frederick and Robin reach farmer George Crop’s home. Frederick had pretended to be poor and was rejected by Crop’s daughter Louisa; he later disguises himself to convince her he died at sea, then reveals himself. Robin loves Margaretta, while Mr. Endless schemes to dispossess Crop and take his wife Dorothy. Robin’s keg from the ship reveals gold, and Margaretta exposes Endless hiding in a sack. Crop and Dorothy reconcile, and Frederick and Louisa reunite.
The Three and the Deuce is a 1795 English afterpiece with libretto by Prince Hoare and music by Stephen Storace. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 2 September 1795. It was later revived at Drury Lane, and "with great success" by Robert William Elliston. Some sources suggest it was originally not very popular but grew into a very favorably received piece. The piece was known for having one actor play three different roles, the three "Singles". One song in the piece. "Little Taffline", is referenced in the Dickens' novel David Copperfield. The Memoirs of John Bannister published in 1839, provide this summary of the play: Toward the close of the season, (2nd September,) "The Three and the Deuce," a new comedy by Prince Hoare, called forth Bannister's versatile powers. The author has placed in the same inn at Cheltenham three brothers, Pertinax, Peregrine, and Percival Single, not less alike than the Menaechmi of Plautus, or the Antipholises of Shakspeare, but very different in their propensities. Pertinax is studious, grave, sententious; Peregrine volatile, active, enterprising; while poor Percival, a mere idiot, is only permitted to leave home under the protection of an Irish tutor (God save the mark!) named Mac Floggum. Bannister played the three brothers, and preserved, with admirable fidelity, their separate identity. The mistakes and confusion which arise from each being seen separately, and mistaken for one of the others, form an amusing, and sometimes interesting entanglement. Grizzle, a servant of Pertinax, is driven almost beyond his senses at the unexpected sallies of his master; and, at last, Percival is rescued from the stern dominion of Mac Floggum, to undergo a more gentle captivity with Taffline, an interesting little Welsh girl, admirably played by Mrs. Bland. The piece was very favourably received; and Bannister, and, after him, Elliston, acquired great applause in the three Singles. The story was said in contemporary British sources to directly derive from the Spanish comedy Los Tres Mellizos popular in Madrid, though remodeled and made English by Hoare. Italian playwright Antonio Collalto wrote Tre gemelli veneziani (Three Venetian Twins) in 1773, which was inspired by The Venetian Twins (1747) by Carlo Goldoni, but to which the twins were made into triplets., The Collalto play was translated into French by P.-A. Lefèvre de Marcouville as Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens, and the Spanish translation upon which Hoare is said to have relied was Los Tres Mellizos.