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Publisher
Printed for John Bell, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; and C. Etherington, at York
Language
English
Pages
60

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Subjects
Librettos, Operas

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Achilles: an opera
1777, Printed for John Bell, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; and C. Etherington, at York
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Edition Notes

U.S. RISM Libretto Project.

"Prologue" in verse--p. 3; "A Table of the Songs" [acts I-III] with note: those airs marked thus (*) were introduced on its being performed in Covent-Garden Theatre in two acts"--p. 59.

Date of performance surmised from imprint.

"[D]eceperat omnes / (In quibus Ajacem) sumptæ fallacia vestis. Ovid. Metam. lib. 13"--title page.

"Naturam expellas furcâ licet, usque recurret. Hor."--title page.

Dramatis personae: Men, LYCOMEDES. Mr. Du-Bellamy -- DIPHILUS. Mr. Dyer -- ACHILLES. Mr. Mattocks -- ULYSSES. Mr. Owenson -- DIOMEDES. Mr. Fox -- AJAX. Mr. Dunstall -- PERIPHAS. Mr. Reinhold -- AGYRTES. Mr. Baker -- Women, THETIS. Miss Catley -- THEASPE. Mrs. Mattocks -- DEIDAMIA. Mrs. Poussin -- LESBIA. Miss Valois -- PHILOE. Miss Brown -- ARTEMONA. [no name given]--p. 4.

Performance: London, Covent Garden, 1777?

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Series
Bell's edition

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Library of Congress
ML48 [S11469]

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Pagination
[2], 60, [2] p. ;
Number of pages
60

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25296646M
LCCN
2010664131

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