The Mysterious Husband

The Mysterious Husband
Written by	Richard Cumberland
Date premiered	28 January 1783
Place premiered	Covent Garden Theatre, London
Original language	English
Genre	Drama

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

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

• 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.