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The Mysterious Husband

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The Mysterious Husband
Written byRichard Cumberland
Date premiered28 January 1783
Place premieredCovent Garden Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama

The Mysterious Husband is a play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It is a Domestic drama with a tragic ending, first performed in 1783. Along with several other Cumberland plays it was influenced by the 1768 gothic play The Mysterious Mother by Horace Walpole.[1]

The original Covent Garden cast included John Henderson as Lord Davenant (a part written for him),[2] William Thomas Lewis as Charles Davenant, Richard Wroughton as Captain Dorner, Richard Yates as Sir Edmund Travers, Elizabeth Satchell as Marianne and Elizabeth Younge as Lady Davenant.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Frank p.256
  2. ^ Mudford, William (1812). The life of Richard Cumberland, esq. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones. p. 413.
  3. ^ Hogan p.588

Bibliography

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  • Frank, Frederick S (ed.). The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother. Broadview Press, 2003.
  • Hogan, C.B (ed.) The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume V. Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.
  • Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Volume III: Late Eighteenth Century Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1952.