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Also found as ''[[False and True, or The Irishman in Italy]]'' | Also found as ''[[False and True, or The Irishman in Italy]]'' | ||
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''[[False and True]]'' (or listed as ''[[False and True, or The Irishman in Italy]]'' by Griffel, 2012) was originally written as a three act afterpiece, with music by Samuel Arnold, and performed in the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, London, on August 11, 1798. | ''[[False and True]]'' (or listed as ''[[False and True, or The Irishman in Italy]]'' by Griffel, 2012) was originally written as a three act afterpiece, with music by Samuel Arnold, and performed in the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, London, on August 11, 1798. | ||
| − | The text (libretto) | + | The text (libretto, without the Music by Arnold) published in London by J. Bell, 1798 and in Dublin by T. Burnside, 1798. |
== Translations and adaptations == | == Translations and adaptations == | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5453602?q&versionId=42301228 | https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5453602?q&versionId=42301228 | ||
Revision as of 06:18, 9 May 2018
False and True is afterpiece in three acts by George Moultrie (fl. 1790-1800)[].
Also found as False and True, or The Irishman in Italy
The original text
False and True (or listed as False and True, or The Irishman in Italy by Griffel, 2012) was originally written as a three act afterpiece, with music by Samuel Arnold, and performed in the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, London, on August 11, 1798.
The text (libretto, without the Music by Arnold) published in London by J. Bell, 1798 and in Dublin by T. Burnside, 1798.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted and "compressed into two acts" for the performance at Drury Lane on June 10, 1816.
Adapted as a farce in two acts called Born to Good Luck, or the Irishman's Fortune by Tyrone Power (1795–1841)[1] and first performed in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, March 17, 1832 and at the Bowery Theatre New York, in March 1852.
Published in London by Henry Lea, [1832?], by Wm. & Henry Taylor (1852) and by S. French, 1852.
Born to Good Luck, or The Irishman in Italy
Sources
https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/6807593
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5453602?q&versionId=42301228
Facsimile version of the 1832 text by Henry Lea[2]
John C. Greene. 2011. Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lexington Books: [3]
Margaret Ross Griffel. 2012. Operas in English: A Dictionary. Scarecrow Press: p.165[4]
