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as Angela. In a period when very few plays reached ten performances in a season, it was staged 47 times before June, when the theatre closed for the summer. The play had a long run also in the following year and remained in the repertoire until the late 1820s, and was
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Further evidence of its extraordinary popularity is given by the fact that it crossed the ocean and opened in New York on 1 June 1798. Moreover, it was turned into a prose romance in 1829 by
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was given its first performance at the Warehouse Theatre Croydon on 5 December 1997. It was directed by Ted Craig and designed by Peter Lindley. The cast was as follows: Percy, son of the
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until the end of the century. It also toured the provincial theatres and went through eleven printed editions from 1798 to 1803.
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Matthew "Monk" Lewis
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
London
Matthew "Monk" Lewis
Gothic
Conwy
Wales
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
William Barrymore
Richard Wroughton
Charles Kemble
John Palmer
John Bannister
James Aickin
William Dowton
John Hayman Packer
George Wathen
Jane Powell
Dorothea Jordan
revived
Sarah Wilkinson
Phil Willmott
Earl of Caernavon
Damien Goodwin
Martyn Stanbridge
Mali Harries
Nick Wilton
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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