country, lasses, custom, manor, 1715, comedy, play, british, writer, charles, johnson, written, bycharles, johnsondate, premiered4, february, 1715, place, premieredtheatre, royal, drury, lane, londonoriginal, languageenglishgenrecomedysettingvillage, around, m. The Country Lasses or The Custom of the Manor is a 1715 comedy play by the British writer Charles Johnson The Country LassesWritten byCharles JohnsonDate premiered4 February 1715 1 Place premieredTheatre Royal Drury Lane LondonOriginal languageEnglishGenreComedySettingVillage around 40 miles from LondonThe original Drury Lane cast included Robert Wilks as Modely Barton Booth as Heartwell John Mills as Freehold Benjamin Johnson as Sir John English Joe Miller as Sneak Richard Cross as Carbuncle Henry Norris as Tim Shacklefigure James Quin as Vulture Susanna Mountfort as Flora Hester Santlow as Aura The play was dedicated to Thomas Pelham Earl of Clare a Whig politician and patron of the arts 2 It was a popular success and remained in the repertoire for the next century 3 References Edit Burling p 57 Orr p 207 Orr p 207Bibliography EditBurling William J A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage 1700 1737 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 1992 Nicoll Allardyce History of English Drama 1660 1900 Volume 2 Cambridge University Press 2009 Orr Bridget British Enlightenment Theatre Dramatizing Difference Cambridge University Press 2020 This article on a play from the 18th century is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Country Lasses amp oldid 1082825310, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
