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Jenny Minnikin elopes to France with her father's assistant, Dick Drugget, to avoid an arranged marriage. She hides in a convent while her family pursues her, and Lady Kitty Crocodile proposes that Jenny marry both Dick and her other suitor, Kit Codling; a parallel courtship concerns Lady Kitty's maid and Colonel Crosby.
Impoverished poet Cape tries to win permission to marry Arabella from her brother Cadwallader by impressing the family. A mistaken flirtation with Mrs. Cadwallader enrages her husband until Governor Cape reveals that the poet is his son and heir.
The Lame Lover is a 1770 comedy play by the British writer Samuel Foote. Foote wrote the play while he was recovering from the amputation of his leg, following a riding accident. The original Haymarket cast starred Foote himself as Sir Luke Limp. The cast also included Thomas Robson as Colonel Secret, Thomas Weston as Jack and Sarah Gardner as Mrs Circuit.
The Maid of Bath is a 1771 comedy play by the British actor-manager Samuel Foote. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 26 June 1771. It was inspired by the life of the singer Elizabeth Ann Linley of the Bath-based Linley family. The prologue was written by David Garrick.
During the Garrat elections carnival, Jerry Sneak is elected mayor and briefly tries to stand up to his domineering wife, who is being courted by Major Sturgeon. Sneak's resolve collapses when his wife cries, and the election's mock civic proceedings frame the domestic farce.
A comedy satirizing the evangelical preacher George Whitefield.
Wealthy Sir Matthew Mite returns from India and uses his fortune to pursue entry into British political society, seeking an aristocratic marriage and a parliamentary seat through bribery.
Jenny Minnikin elopes to France with her father's assistant, Dick Drugget, to avoid an arranged marriage. She hides in a convent while her family pursues her, and Lady Kitty Crocodile proposes that Jenny marry both Dick and her other suitor, Kit Codling; a parallel courtship concerns Lady Kitty's maid and Colonel Crosby.
Impoverished poet Cape tries to win permission to marry Arabella from her brother Cadwallader by impressing the family. A mistaken flirtation with Mrs. Cadwallader enrages her husband until Governor Cape reveals that the poet is his son and heir.
The Lame Lover is a 1770 comedy play by the British writer Samuel Foote. Foote wrote the play while he was recovering from the amputation of his leg, following a riding accident. The original Haymarket cast starred Foote himself as Sir Luke Limp. The cast also included Thomas Robson as Colonel Secret, Thomas Weston as Jack and Sarah Gardner as Mrs Circuit.
The Maid of Bath is a 1771 comedy play by the British actor-manager Samuel Foote. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 26 June 1771. It was inspired by the life of the singer Elizabeth Ann Linley of the Bath-based Linley family. The prologue was written by David Garrick.
During the Garrat elections carnival, Jerry Sneak is elected mayor and briefly tries to stand up to his domineering wife, who is being courted by Major Sturgeon. Sneak's resolve collapses when his wife cries, and the election's mock civic proceedings frame the domestic farce.
A comedy satirizing the evangelical preacher George Whitefield.
Wealthy Sir Matthew Mite returns from India and uses his fortune to pursue entry into British political society, seeking an aristocratic marriage and a parliamentary seat through bribery.