Harlequin Touchstone [The Touchstone], New Airs, Songs & Chorusses in : Play 1789.

Description: John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica states: It was revived in 1789 or rather attempted to be revived but when the songs &c were sent to the Licenser they were 'forbidden' and that word is written on the copy in Larpent's manuscript -- No reason is apparent. See LA 464.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dibdin, Charles (Author)
Corporate Author: Adam Matthews Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Language:English
Published: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2016.
Subjects:
Censorship & Politics
Covent Garden Theatre
Harris, Thomas
Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)
Larpent, John
censorship, song, revival, Harlequin, humour
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Description: John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica states: It was revived in 1789 or rather attempted to be revived but when the songs &c were sent to the Licenser they were 'forbidden' and that word is written on the copy in Larpent's manuscript -- No reason is apparent. See LA 464.
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AMDigital Reference: LA851.
Licence refused. Manuscript has two [plays] bound together; some of the same airs appear in both; cover to first endorsed New Airs Songs & Chorusses &c in the revived Pantomime of Harlequin Touchstone, C.G., Nov., 1789; cover to second endorsed Songs Dialogues & Chorusses in the revived Pantomime of Touchstone, C.G., Nov., 1789, and (by Larpent) Forbidden.
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