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The Flitch Of Bacon (opera)
''The Flitch of Bacon'' is a 1778 comic opera composed by William Shield with a libretto by Sir Henry Dudley, 1st Baronet, Henry Bate Dudley. It is inspired by the Flitch of bacon custom, Flitch of Bacon tradition and takes place at Little Dunmow Priory in Essex. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 17 August 1778. The original cast included William Parsons (actor), William Parsons as Major Benbow, Charles Bannister as Captain Wilson, John Edwin (1749–1790), John Edwin as Tipple and Elizabeth Bannister, Elizabeth Harpur as Eliza. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 2 December 1779.Greene p.4487 The tradition later inspired the 1854 novel ''The Flitch of Bacon (novel), The Flitch of Bacon'' by William Harrison Ainsworth. References Bibliography * Greene, John C. ''Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6''. Lexington Books, 2011. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of English Drama 1660–1900: Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Dudley, 1st Baronet
The Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, 1st Baronet (25 August 1745 – 1 February 1824) was a British minister, magistrate and playwright. He was born in Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, but in 1763 his father moved the family to Essex to take up a Rectory at North Fambridge near Chelmsford. On his father's death, Bate Dudley took over the ministry.Obituary, 1824, pp. 273-276. In Essex, he owned Bradwell Lodge, a Tudor country house near Bradwell-on-Sea and engaged the architect John Johnson to construct a large extension attached to the south side of the original house, designed in a Neoclassical style. Bate Dudley was a great supporter of, and chronicled the life of the artist Thomas Gainsborough . Much of this work was published in the ''Morning Herald'' which Bate Dudley owned and ran, and the ''Morning Post'' with which he was also associated but had left to set up the ''Herald'' after a disagreement in 1780. Much of this was republished in 1915 in ''Life of Gainsborough'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
