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Rule a wife and have a wife : a comedy / altered from Beaumont and Fletcher, by David Garrick ; correctly given, from copies used in the theatres, by Thomas Dibdin.

Fletcher, John, 1579-1625, author.; Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616, attributed name.; Garrick, David, 1717-1779.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Casimiento engañoso.; Love, James, 1722-1774.; Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841.
1815
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Title
Rule a wife and have a wife : a comedy / altered from Beaumont and Fletcher, by David Garrick ; correctly given, from copies used in the theatres, by Thomas Dibdin.
Created/published
London : Printed at the Chiswick Press for Whittingham and Arliss, 1815.
Description
64 p. : ill. ; 13 cm
Associated name
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625, author.
Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616, attributed name.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Casimiento engañoso.
Love, James, 1722-1774.
Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841.
Series statement
Dibdin, T. J. London theatre. London, 1815 [1814-25] ; v. 10 [no. 3]
Note
Title vignette.

By Fletcher; the minor plot is from Cervantes' El casamiento engañoso, one of the Novelas exemplares.

See Baker, Biog. dram. (1812), III, 232, concerning alterations by Garrick.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
Bd.w. PR1243 .K3 Copy1 v.6
Call number
PR1243 .D6 1815 v.13 item 3 Cage
Folger-specific note
Third of four in volume 13 of London theatre.
Folger accession
cs1839