Duplicity (play)

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Duplicity
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Written by Thomas Holcroft
Date premiered13 October 1781 [1]
Place premiered Covent Garden Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy

Duplicity is a 1781 comedy play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft. [2]

The original Covent Garden cast included John Henderson as Mr Osborne, William Thomas Lewis as Sir Harry Portland, Richard Wilson as Sir Hornet Armstrong, Charles Lee Lewes as Squire Turnbull, John Edwin as Timid, Ralph Wewitzer as Mr Vandervelt, William Stevens as Scrip, Sarah Maria Wilson as Miss Turnbull, Elizabeth Inchbald as Melissa, Ann Pitt as Mrs Trip and Elizabeth Younge as Clara. [3]

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References

  1. Hogan p.466
  2. Nicoll p.270
  3. Hogan p.466

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