The Mysterious Husband
Written byRichard Cumberland
Date premiered28 January 1783
Place premieredCovent Garden Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama

The Mysterious Husband is a play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It is a Domestic drama with a tragic ending, first performed in 1783. Along with several other Cumberland plays it was influenced by the 1768 gothic play The Mysterious Mother by Horace Walpole.[1]

The original Covent Garden cast included John Henderson as Lord Davenant (a part written for him),[2] William Thomas Lewis as Charles Davenant, Richard Wroughton as Captain Dorner, Richard Yates as Sir Edmund Travers, Elizabeth Satchell as Marianne and Elizabeth Younge as Lady Davenant.[3]

References

  1. ^ Frank p.256
  2. ^ Mudford, William (1812). The life of Richard Cumberland, esq. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones. p. 413.
  3. ^ Hogan p.588

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