This playbill records a performance at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden of The constant couple by George Farquhar (1676-1707) on 22 May 1755 in which Margaret Woffington (1720?-1760) played the leading part of Sir Harry Wildair - one of the roles fo...
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A playbill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707., Woffington, Margaret, -1760., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
"A young woman, three-quarter length, sitting at a table, directed to right, wearing jewels in her hair, a portrait on a ribbon around her wrist, and a fur tippet, right hand holding a quill, resting on a sheaf of papers, left elbow on a box on the ta...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by Edwd. Fisher in Leicester Fields & by Ryland & Bryer in Cornhill