Last Night of Performance at the New Prices...[Parodic playbill relating to the Old Price Riots at Covent Garden], printed playbill, few spots, slight browning, folds, slim strip of paper laid down to head to verso, 470 x 180mm., Glindon, [1809].
⁂ An attack on the management of Covent Garden, caused by rising prices at the new theatre after the previous one had been destroyed by fire. The pieces supposedly performed include "Imposition" (in which theatre manager John Philip Kemble takes the parts of Avarice, Pride, Affectation and Insolence); "Raising the Wind...or Diddler Diddled" (Kemble as Diddler); "The Confederates" ("a Capital Deception by the following inimitable Performers, hired for the occasion..."); "John Ox, or The cruel Attempt to Despoil John Bull"; and between the scenes "Slight of Hand & Legerdemain Tricks by the Proprietors". WorldCat records just one copy in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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