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George Colman's Adaptation of Garrick's Promptbook for Florizel and Perdita
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2009
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Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Winter's Tale was not popular during the first half of the eighteenth century. Audiences of that period affected to prefer plays that observed the Unities, and this play of Shakespeare's with its sixteen-year gap between the third and fourth acts appeared fatally flawed. Goodman's Fields Theatre revived it on 15 January 1741 and played it eight additional nights in 1740–41. The following season it was produced at Covent Garden on 11 November 1741 and played for a mere four performances. But by 1742 The Winter's Tale had been dropped from the repertoires of all London theatres.
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1 Pasted over page 33 of the promptbook.
2 Pasted over page 41 of the promptbook.
3 Notes and Queries, N. S., Vol. 18, No. 4 (April 1971), pp. 152–155CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
4 The London Stage, Part 4, p. 833passimGoogle Scholar.
5 Shakespeare in the Theatre, II, p. 678passimGoogle Scholar.
6 John Oram (fl. 1747–58), scene painter at Drury Lane.
7 A scenic drop depicting an ornate drawing room, a stock item in the scenic inventory at Drury Lane.