The Way to Get Married

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The Way to Get Married
Bodleian Libraries, Playbill of Covent Garden, Wednesday, Oct 19, 1796, announcing The way to get married &c..jpg
Written by Thomas Morton
Date premiered23 January 1796 [1]
Place premiered Covent Garden Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy

The Way to Get Married is a 1796 comedy play by the British writer Thomas Morton. [2] The play was frequently revived well into the nineteenth century.

The original cast included William Thomas Lewis as Tangent, John Quick as Toby Allspice, John Henry Johnstone as McQuery, Alexander Pope as Captain Faulkener, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Caustic, John Fawcett as Dick Dashall, Charles Farley as Servant, Charles Holland as Solicitor, Isabella Mattocks as Clementina Allspice, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Julia Faulkener and Mary Ann Davenport as Lady Sorel. [3]

John Quick and John Fawcett in The Way to Get Married. Samuel de Wilde - John Quick and John Fawcett in Thomas Moreton's "The Way to Get Married" - Google Art Project.jpg
John Quick and John Fawcett in The Way to Get Married.

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References

  1. Hogan p.1825
  2. Nicoll p.289
  3. Hogan p.1825-26

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