''The Country Attorney'' is a 1787
comic play by the British writer
Richard Cumberland. It was first performed at the
Haymarket Theatre
The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote ...
on 7 July 1787.
[Watson p.1968] The play was reworked and much of it used again by Cumberland for the 1789 play ''
The School for Widows''.
References
Bibliography
* Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Volume III: Late Eighteenth Century Drama''. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
* Watson, George. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Plays by Richard Cumberland
1787 plays
West End plays
Comedy plays
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