''The Patrician's Daughter'' is an 1842

tragedy Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy ...

by the British writer John Westland Marston. It premiered at the

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on 10 December 1842.Nicoll p.343 The original cast included

William Macready William Charles Macready (3 March 179327 April 1873) was an English actor. Life He was born in London the son of William Macready the elder, and actress Christina Ann Birch. Educated at Rugby School where he became headboy, and where now the ...

as Mordaunt,

Samuel Phelps Samuel Phelps (born 13 February 1804, Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Plymouth, Devon, died 6 November 1878, Anson's Farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex) was an English actor and theatre manager. He is known for his productions of William Sha ...

as the Earl of Lynterne,

Edward William Elton Edward William Elton (August 1794 – 20 July 1843) was an English actor. Biography Elton was born in London, in the parish of Lambeth, in August 1794, and was trained for the law in the office of a solicitor named Springhall in Verulam Buildin ...

as Heartwell,

George John Bennett George John Bennett (1800–1879) was for nearly 40 years a Shakespearian actor on the London stage, notably Covent Garden and Drury Lane. Life He was the son of the eminent popular comedian George Bennett anHarriet Morland, the daughter of a ...

as Lister,

Charles Selby Charles Selby (c. 1802 – 1863) was a 19th-century English actor and playwright, and translator of many French plays (often without attribution, not uncommon at the time). Among his works was ''The Marble Heart'' (1854), a translation of Théod ...

as Lord Chatterly,

Morris Barnett Morris Barnett (1800 – 18 March 1856), was a British actor and dramatist. Biography Born into a Jewish family,William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macm ...

as Sir Archer Taunton, John Ryder as Physician, George Yarnold as Solicitor,

Mary Warner Mary Amelia Warner (''née'' Huddart; 1804–1854), best known by her stage name Mrs Warner, was an English actress and theatre manager. Life Warner was born in Manchester in 1804 to Thomas Huddart, a chemist from Dublin, and his wife, Ann née ...

as Lady Lydia Lynterne and

Helena Faucit Helena Saville Faucit, Lady Martin (11 October 1817 – 31 October 1898) was an English actress. Early life Born in London, she was the daughter of actors John Saville Faucit and Harriet Elizabeth Savill. Her parents separated when she was a gi ...

as Lady Mabel Lynterne.

References

Bibliography

* Downer, Alan Seymour. ''The Eminent Tragedian William Charles Macready''. Harvard University Press, 1966. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850''. Cambridge University Press, 1930. 1842 plays West End plays British plays Tragedy plays Plays set in England Plays by John Westland Marston {{19thC-play-stub