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2.
- Creator:
- Theatre Royal (York, England)
- Published / Created:
- [1801]
- Call Number:
- Folio 767 P69B Y82
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Benefit of Miss Errington. Theatre-Royal, York
- Description:
- Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from theatres in York, England]. [England], [1789-1805].
- Publisher:
- W. Blanchard, printer, York
- Subject (Name):
- Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. and Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > On Saturday evening, April 25, 1801, their Majesties' servants will perform the comedy of The deserted daughter ... : after which, the favourite farce, in two acts, called Two strings to your bow ...
3.
- Creator:
- Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 169
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in Jephson's hand, of a parody of Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Using florid language throughout, the author explains his satiety with Dublin and determines to explore the countryside. Traveling with Dean Marlay, Mrs Greville and Mrs Jephson, he complains about the unsightly mendicants who mar the scenery; sings, along with his companions, the Beggar's Opera to pass the time; and runs over "pigs and children who were lying together in the middle of the highway." At Celbridge, he praises the landscape, estate, and the appearance of its owner, Colonel Marlay. The essay concludes with a description of the narrator's fall into the Liffey, and his rescue by catching hold of a passing cow and Horace Walpole has filled in Johnson's name and added "By Richard Jephson, Esqre" underneath the title
- Description:
- Robert Jephson (1736-1803), playwright and parodist, was born in Dublin. His first play, Braganza, was performed in 1775, with an epilogue by Horace Walpole. His most commercially successful play, performed 37 times between 1781 and 1798, was The Count of Narbonne, based on Walpole's Castle of Otranto as well as Walpole's play, Mysterious Mother. In addition to other plays, Jephson also wrote numerous parodic pieces, including a series in the government newspaper The Mercury under the title "The Bachelor." He parodied the style of the printer George Faulkner and criticized Charles Townshend's enemies in An Epistle to Gorges Edmund Howard (1771); wrote Extempore Ludicrous Miltonic Verses(1788); and wrote a prose piece titled Confessions of James Baptiste Couteau (1794), a satirical parody of revolutionary politics., In English., Title from first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ireland., Celbridge (Ireland), and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Marlay, Richard, d. 1802., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- English wit and humor, Parodies, English, Poverty, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to Celbridge, by Dr. S. Johnson, [ca. 1776]
4.
- Creator:
- Covent Garden Theatre
- Published / Created:
- [1796]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B C838 1798
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- At head of title: Twentieth time., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
- Publisher:
- Covent Garden Theatre
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > At the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Saturday, Nov. 17, 1798 will be preformed a new play, (in five acts) called Lover's vows : the principal characters by Mr. Pope, Mr. Munden, Mr. H. Johnston ... After which will be performed a farce, called Two strings to your bow. ... To which will be added, 11th time, a news musical piece, in one act, called The mouth of the Nile ... in which will be introduced a representation of the battle of the glorious first of August. The overture and music composed by Mr. Attwood ...
5.
- Creator:
- Covent Garden Theatre
- Published / Created:
- [1807]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B C838 1807 4/30
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- A playbill. and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
- Publisher:
- E. Macleish, printer, 2 Bow-Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dramatic production, Pantomimes, and Theater
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Thursday, April 30, 1807, will be acted Shakspeare's tragedy of Macbeth : the overture and symphonies between the acts by Mr. W. Ware. ... After which will be produced (for the 9th time), a new grand serio-comick ballet of action, called The ogre and little thumb, or, The seven league boots ... In the course of the pantomime (among others) the following new scenes will be introduced ... with a real cataract. And a sylvan bower ...
