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Author Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.

Title A tale of mystery [microform] : a melo-drame ; as performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden / by Thomas Holcroft.

Imprint London : Published by Richard Phillips, 1802.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 40048    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed. / with etchings after designs by Tresham.
Description [10], 51 p. plates.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 40048
Note "Dramatis personae": p. [10]
Without the music (by Thomas Busby)
First edition, London, 1802; first performed 13 November, 1802.
"The first English play to be announced as a 'melo-drama.'--A. C. Baugh. Literary history of England.
An adaptation of Pixerecourt's Coelina ou l'Enfant du mystere, a dramatization of Ducray-Duminil's romance of the same name. cf. W. S. Dye. Study of melodrama in England from 1800 to 1840; F. Heel. Guilbert de Pixerecourt.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 40048)
Added Author Pixerecourt, R.-C. Guilbert de (Rene-Charles Guilbert de), 1773-1844. Coelina.
Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814

 
    
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