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PG-P.767.019
26 Feb 1767:33 (1992)
By authority, by the American Company, at the new Theatre,
in Southwark, to-morrow, being Friday, the 27th of February,
will be presented, a Comedy, witten by Congreve, called,
Love for Love; with the humours of Ben the Sailor.
Valentine, by Mr. Douglass. Ben, with a song in character,
by Mr. Hallam. Sir Sampson Legend, by Mr. Tomlinson.
Forefight, by Mr. Morris. Scandal, by Mr. Allyn. Tattle, by
Mr. Wall. Jeremy, by Mr. Godwin. Buckram, by Mr. Graville.
Angelica, by Miss Hallam. Mrs. Frail, by Mrs. Douglass.
Mrs. Foresight, by Mrs. Wall. Nurse, by Mrs. Harman. Miss
Prue, by Miss Cheer.
With entertainments, viz. In Act III, a hornpipe, by Mr.
Mathews. End of the play, a comic dance, by Mr. Godwin; to
which will be added, a Pastoral Farce, called
Damon and Phillida.
Damon, by Mr.Woolls. Mopsus, by Mr. Hallam, Cimon, by Mr.
Wall. Arcas, by Mr. Allyn. Corydon, by Mr. Morris.
Phillida, by Miss Wainwright.
To begin exactly at six o'clock.
---Vivant Rex & Regina.
No persons can, under any pretence whatsoever, be admitted
behind the scenes.
---Tickets are sold at the London coffee-House, at Mr.
Francis's, at the Queen's Head, in Water-street, at Mr.
George Hawkins's, in Walnut-street, and at Mrs. Scott's, in
Lombard-street, where places for the boxes may be taken.
---Ladies and gentlemen will please send their servants at
four o'clock, to keep their places in the boxes.
---Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s.
* Mr. Congreve's comedies are allowed to abound with
genuine wit, and true humour; but, in compliance with the
licentious taste of the times in which they were written,
the author has, in some places, given the rein to his wanton
muse, and deviated from those rules a more refined age, and
chaste stage, require; the reviver of this play has taken
the freedom to crop such luxuriances, and expurge every
passage that might be offensive either to decency or good
manners.
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