The Mysterious Husband
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| 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]
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Bibliography[edit]
- 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.
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| Novels | John de Lancaster (1809) | |
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