Citation - Newport Mercury: 1769.09.11

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Index Entry Beggar's Opera [t], to be performed in Newport 
Location Newport 
Citation
NM.769.042
11 Sep 1769:33 (575)
This evening, at Mrs. Cowley's assembly-room in Church-Lane,
will be read The Beggar's Opera, by a person who has read
and sung in most of the great towns in America:  all the
songs will be sung.  He personates all the characters, and
enters into the various humours, or passions, as they change
from one to another, throughout the opera.
Tickets to be had at the printing office, at half a dollar
each.  No person to be admitted without a ticket.  To begin
at 7 o'clock.
N.B.  Young gentlemen and ladies taught to read with
propriety any author in the English language.


Generic Title Newport Mercury 
Date 1769.09.11 
Publisher Southwick, Solomon 
City, State Newport, RI 
Year 1769 
Bibliography B0032266
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