''Pasquin'' is a 1736
comedy play
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by
Henry Fielding
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. It is a satire on both politics and the theatre, with a
play within a play
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plot about a group of actors attempting to put on a production about a local election. It takes its name from
Pasquin
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, a historic
statue in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
.
The original
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Places
Australia
* Haymarket, New South Wales, area of Sydney, Australia
Germany
* Heumarkt (KVB), transport interchange in Cologne on the site of the Heumarkt (literally: hay market)
Russia
* Sennaya Square (''Hay Squ ...
cast included
John Roberts
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as Trapwell,
James Lacy as Fustian,
Charlotte Charke as Lord Place and
John Freeman as Colonel Promise. It was the success of the season with an estimated 25,000 people seeing its original run of forty performances.
[Bullard p.342]
References
Bibliography
* Bullard, Paddy. ''The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire''. Oxford University Press, 2019.
* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
* Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750''. CUP Archive, 1927.
1736 plays
Comedy plays
West End plays
Plays by Henry Fielding
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