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The Bank Note: Or Lessons for Ladies is a 1795 comedy play by the Irish writer and actor William Macready the Elder. Its plot draws inspiration from William Taverner's The Artful Husband as well as other earlier plays. Macready's play premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 1 May 1795. The play is notable for including the first known printed use of the word 'smithereens':I join you with all my heart,—and wish he was hang'd, shot, cut in smithereens.
Fashionable gambling and extravagant pleasures threaten domestic happiness while money obstructs courtship. Lieutenant Selby’s poverty keeps him from marrying Emma, and Sir Charles Leslie considers a wealthy widow as a way to rescue his mortgaged estate.
The Irishman in London is a 1792 comedy play by the Irish writer and actor William Macready the Elder. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on the 21 April 1792. The original cast included George Davies Harley as Captain Seymour, Macready as Colloony, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Frost, John Henry Johnstone as Murtoch Delany, John Fawcett as Edward, Thomas Blanchard as Cymon, Isabella Mattocks as Louisa and Charlotte Chapman as Caroline. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 19 July 1792.
The Bank Note: Or Lessons for Ladies is a 1795 comedy play by the Irish writer and actor William Macready the Elder. Its plot draws inspiration from William Taverner's The Artful Husband as well as other earlier plays. Macready's play premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 1 May 1795. The play is notable for including the first known printed use of the word 'smithereens':I join you with all my heart,—and wish he was hang'd, shot, cut in smithereens.
Fashionable gambling and extravagant pleasures threaten domestic happiness while money obstructs courtship. Lieutenant Selby’s poverty keeps him from marrying Emma, and Sir Charles Leslie considers a wealthy widow as a way to rescue his mortgaged estate.
The Irishman in London is a 1792 comedy play by the Irish writer and actor William Macready the Elder. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on the 21 April 1792. The original cast included George Davies Harley as Captain Seymour, Macready as Colloony, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Frost, John Henry Johnstone as Murtoch Delany, John Fawcett as Edward, Thomas Blanchard as Cymon, Isabella Mattocks as Louisa and Charlotte Chapman as Caroline. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 19 July 1792.