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Thomas Betterton [1692], The Fairy Queen: an opera. Represented at the Queen's-Theatre By Their Majesties servants (Printed for Jacob Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S31900]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Note return to page 1 The sets for this grand semi-opera, performed at Dorset Garden with a magnificent score by Henry Purcell in 1692, were so expensive that despite a favourable public reception it could not hope to recoup its cost, and it was revived only once, in 1693. The script, a very loose adaptation of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM which interpolates a number of wholly irrelevant masques, is now generally attributed to Thomas Betterton.
Thomas Betterton [1692], The Fairy Queen: an opera. Represented at the Queen's-Theatre By Their Majesties servants (Printed for Jacob Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S31900]. |
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