At the Old Theatre near the Capitol, By the Virginia Company of Comedians, On Wednesday the 8th Instant (June) will be presented A Comedy, wrote by Mr. Fielding call'd, The Miser ... [13 lines of performance information] ... After the play, an Epilogue ... and Bucks Have At Ye All ... To which will be added, a Farce, called The Brave Irishman ... [10 lines of performance information] .. To conclude with a Dance, call'd the Drunken Peasant ...
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At the Old Theatre near the Capitol, By the Virginia Company of Comedians, On Wednesday the 8th Instant (June) will be presented A Comedy, wrote by Mr. Fielding call'd, The Miser ... [13 lines of performance information] ... After the play, an Epilogue ... and Bucks Have At Ye All ... To which will be added, a Farce, called The Brave Irishman ... [10 lines of performance information] .. To conclude with a Dance, call'd the Drunken Peasant ...
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1 sheet ([1] page) ; 32 x 22.3 cm
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At head of title: "Mr. Charlton. By Permission of the Worshipful Mayor of Williamsburg "
"Williamsburg, in Virginia" written in a contemporary hand above the title.
No copies of Rind's issue of the Virginia Gazette for June 2, 1768 where the play was likely advertised are known to exist.
"Tickets to be had of Mr. Rind, Mr. Edward Charlton, Mr. Russell, and of Mr. Thomas Charlton, or at the Door of the Theatre. To begin at Seven o'Clock precisely. Vivant Rex & Regina."
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Johnson, Odai and William J. Burling. The Colonial American Stage : a Documentary Calendar. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2001, page 309
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Virginia Company of Comedians, “At the Old Theatre near the Capitol, By the Virginia Company of Comedians, On Wednesday the 8th Instant (June) will be presented A Comedy, wrote by Mr. Fielding call'd, The Miser ... [13 lines of performance information] ... After the play, an Epilogue ... and Bucks Have At Ye All ... To which will be added, a Farce, called The Brave Irishman ... [10 lines of performance information] .. To conclude with a Dance, call'd the Drunken Peasant ...,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed May 2, 2024, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/579.
