Love for Money
1691 play
| Love for Money | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Thomas D'Urfey |
| Date premiered | January 1691 |
| Place premiered | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Restoration Comedy |
Love For Money; Or, The Boarding School is a 1691 comedy play by the English writer Thomas D'Urfey. It was originally staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the United Company. In 1733 it was adapted into a ballad opera The Boarding School by Charles Coffey.
Original cast
- Cave Underhill as Sir Rowland Rakehell
- William Mountfort as Jack Amorous
- John Hodgson as Will Merriton
- John Freeman as Old Merriton
- George Powell as Nedd Bragg alias Captain Bouncer
- George Bright as Old Zachary Bragg
- Thomas Doggett as Deputy Nincompoop
- William Bowen as Monsieur Le Prate
- Mr. Kirkham as Singing Master
- John Bowman as Dancing Master
- Mr. Peire as Presbyterian Parson
- Anthony Leigh as Lady Addleplot
- Mrs. Richardson as Lady Straddle
- Anne Bracegirdle as Mirtilla
- Frances Maria Knight as Miss Jenny
- Mrs. Davies as Miss Molly
- Charlotte Butler as Betty Jiltall
- Katherine Corey as Crowstich
- Margaret Osborne as Teareshift
- Elinor Leigh as Oyley[1]
References
- ^ Van Lennep p.392
Bibliography
- Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
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- She Would If She Could (1668)
- An Evening's Love (1668)
- Sir Solomon Single (1670)
- Love in a Wood (1671)
- The Rehearsal (1671)
- Epsom Wells (1672)
- Marriage à la mode (1672)
- The Country Wife (1675)
- Love in the Dark (1675)
- The Country Wit (1676)
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- The Man of Mode (1676)
- Tom Essence (1676)
- A Fond Husband (1677)
- Friendship in Fashion (1678)
- Squire Oldsapp (1678)
- Tunbridge Wells (1678)
- A True Widow (1678)
- The Woman Captain (1679)
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- The Royalist (1682)
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