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Our play tonight wants novelty tis true

DMI number:
35829
Poem Aliases
Beggar's Opera. Prologue.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Our play tonight wants novelty tis true
Last Line:
And lose the goaler in the dull divine
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Prologue
Themes:
Crime, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Theatre
Related People
Author:
Samuel Whyte
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Whyte (1795): 45-46.
Content/Publication
Title:
The shamrock: or, Hibernian cresses. A collection of poems, songs, epigrams, &c. [N22315] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.132-133
Poem Title:
Occasional Prologue to the Beggar's Opera, Performed at Carton. Inscribed to her Grace the Duchess of Leinster.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The shamrock: or, Hibernian cresses. A collection of poems, songs, epigrams, &c. [T90484] [2nd ed] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.132-133
Poem Title:
Occasional Prologue to the Beggar's Opera, Performed at Carton. Inscribed to her Grace the Duchess of Leinster.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed