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This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

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Title
This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village
Additional title: This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village : ... after which (third time this season) a romance of a peculiar interest, entitled Presumption! or, The fate of Frankenstein, the musick composed by Mr. Watson, with Winter's Overture to Zaira ... with an entirely new last scene, conformably to the termination in the original story, representing a schooner in a violent storm! In which Frankenstein and the monster are destroyed
Names
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England) (Publisher)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1827
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Topics
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812. Love in a village
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. Presumption!
Genres
Playbills (Posters)
Notes
Content: Broadside playbill; also advertises: unspecified Dryden opera with music by Purcell ; the opera of Artaxerxes ; "the grand serio-comick opera called The oracle" [an adaptation of Peter von Winter's Das Unterbrochene Opferfest] ; The vampire, or, The bride of the isles! ; "a new musical drama to be called The serjeant's wife!" ; Lying made easy ; The Cornish miners.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 sheet ; 34 x 21 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 56591360-0036-0130-2bda-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1827: Issued
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1827. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7a50e7dc-a0c2-785c-e040-e00a180656cd

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7a50e7dc-a0c2-785c-e040-e00a180656cd

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1827). This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7a50e7dc-a0c2-785c-e040-e00a180656cd

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This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village