''The Rival Sisters: or, The Violence of Love'' is a 1695
tragedy by the English writer
Robert Gould. Gould's previous attempt to have a tragedy ''Innocence Distress'd'' staged by the
United Company was blocked and by the time his second work was performed he had given up writing.
[Fisk & Canfield p.21]
It premiered at
Drury Lane
Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of Westminster.
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where it was produced by
Christopher Rich's company. The original cast included
Thomas Disney
Thomas Disney (c. 1510 – 17 April 1568), of Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincolnshire, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Boroughbridge
Boroughbridge () is a town and civil parish in the Harrogate dis ...
as Vilarezo,
John Verbruggen as Sebastian,
George Powell as Antonio,
Joseph Williams as Alonzo,
Hildebrand Horden
Hildebrand Horden (died 1696) was a London actor. He joined the United Company in 1694, just before it split in two as the senior actors, headed by Thomas Betterton, walked out and set up a cooperative company in Lincoln's Inn Fields. As he was y ...
as Vilander,
Benjamin Johnson as Gerardo,
Thomas Kent as Diego,
Frances Maria Knight as Catalina,
Jane Rogers as Berinthia,
Letitia Cross as Alphanta and
Susanna Verbruggen as Ansilva.
Incidental music
Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as t ...
was composed for the play by
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...
.
References
Bibliography
* Deborah Payne Fisk & J. Douglas Canfield. ''Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater''. University of Georgia Press, 2010.
* Price, Curtis A. ''Henry Purcell and the London Stage''. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
1695 plays
English plays
West End plays
Tragedy plays
Plays set in Portugal
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