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1723 play
Love in a Forest
is a 1723
comedy play
by
Charles Johnson
.
[2]
It is a substantial reworking of
Shakespeare
's
As You Like It
cutting out characters and passages, while borrowing from other Shakespeare plays amongst other things.
[3]
The original Drury Lane cast included
Charles Williams
as Duke Frederick,
Barton Booth
as Alberto,
Colley Cibber
as Jacques,
John Corey
as Amiens,
John Thurmond
as Oliver,
Robert Wilks
as Orlando,
John Roberts
as Roberto,
John Mills
as Adam,
Theophilus Cibber
as Le Beau,
William Mills
as Charles,
Hester Santlow
as Rosalind,
Sarah Thurmond
as Celia,
William Penkethman
as Pyramus,
Henry Norris
as Wall and
Joe Miller
as Thisbe.
References
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edit
]
- ^
Burling p.100
- ^
Nicoll p.339
- ^
Lynch p.127
Bibliography
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edit
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- Burling, William J.
A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737
. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
- Lynch, Stephen J.
As You Like it: A Guide to the Play
. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.
- Nicoll, Allardyce.
History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 2
. Cambridge University Press, 2009.