Shelfmark
Krr.3.30
Author
Title
The universal passion. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for J. Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields., MDCCXXXVII.. [1737]
Physical description
[8], 76 [i.e.75], [5] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
Anonymous. By James Miller.
Note
Title-page in red and black.
Note
Page 75 misnumbered 76.
Note
With two final leaves of advertisements.
Note
Prologue spoken by Coley Cibber; Epilogue spoken by Mrs Clive.
Note
Dramatis personae and advertisement on p. [8].
Note
Price printed at foot of title-page: "One Shilling and Six Pence."
Note
A reworking of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'.
Note
Includes airs (original or borrowed) to be sung; the song 'I like the am'rous Youth that's free' by Handel.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T50478
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in the book.
Binding
20th-century plain brown paper wrappers. Textblock trimmed and sprinkled yellow (contemporary work). Six free modern endpapers sewn in following the text (none before).
Copy-specific note
?Bookseller's code on lowermost endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations on title-page: "'Much Ado'"; various numbers and "[?]Shakespearean [unread]" beside imprint.
Subject
Subject
Musicals Librettos.
Added entry--name
Watts, John, ? - -1763 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Cibber, Colley, 1671 - 1757 performer.
Added entry--name
Clive, Kitty, 1711 - 1785 performer.
Added entry--name
Handel, George Frideric, 1685 - 1759 composer.
Added entry--name
Pritchard, Hannah, 1711 - 1768 performer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50592