Prologue spoken by the celebrated Mr Barrington on opening the Theatre at Sydney, Botany Bay, ca. 18...
Prologue spoken by the celebrated Mr Barrington on opening the Theatre at Sydney, Botany Bay, ca. 1810
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No date. Date of watermarked paper is 1810.
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MLMSS 8002
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
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This transcribed version of the Prologue has no known transcriber though it is written on paper watermarked `C. Wilmott 1810'. This version has the differing phrase `What urg'd our travels was the public weal' more often printed as `our country's weal'.
As is the case with all the publications ascribed to Barrington, there is no doubt that h...
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Prologue spoken by the celebrated Mr Barrington on opening the Theatre at Sydney, Botany Bay, ca. 1810
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Signature / Inscriptions
Watermark `C. Wilmott, 1810'
Attributions / Conjectures
Prologue reputedly spoken by George Barrington at the opening of the Theatre in Sydney in 1796. It was uncertain who the writer of the piece was, but researchers revealed it to be "a gentleman of Leicester", Henry Carter
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Source
Purchased from Hordern House, Sept. 2009 in memory of Arthur Easton a member of the Manuscripts Section of the Original Materials Branch of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, 1984-2009
Administrative / Biographical history
George Barrington, pickpocket, was born near Dublin, possibly at Maynooth.
He was educated at Dublin grammar school in preparation for the university but at 16 he stabbed another schoolboy in a fight, was severely flogged, stole some money and a watch, and ran away. He later joined a company of strolling players led by John Price, a swindler w...
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MLMSS 8002
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9NaAPG3Y
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915199
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