28 March 1745

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Theatre: Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1744-1745
Volume: 3
Comments: HHorace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 29 March: The Town flocks to a new play of Thomson's call'd Tancred and Sigismunda: it is very dull: I have read it. I cannot bear modern poetry; these refiners of the purity of the stage, and of the incorrectness of English verse, are most woefully insipid. -Toynbee, Letters of Horace Walpole, II, 82

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    *p�\dl Tancred and Sigismunda. [Actors only, but% See 23 March. *c�\dl $HHorace Walpole= to $Sir Horace Mann=, 29 March: The Town flocks to a new play of $Thomson='s call'd <i>Tancred and Sigismunda</i>: it is very dull: I have read it. I cannot bear modern poetry; these refiners of the purity of the stage, and of the incorrectness of <i>English verse</i>, are most woefully insipid. -$Toynbee=, <i>Letters of Horace Walpole</i>, II, 82.

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    *p1745 03 28 dl Tancred and Sigismunda. Actors only, but ^See17450323^.*c1745 03 28 dl $HHorace Walpole= to $Sir Horace Mann=, 29 March: The Town flocks to a new play of $Thomson='s call'd <i>Tancred and Sigismunda</i>: it is very dull: I have read it. I cannot bear modern poetry; these refiners of the purity of the stage, and of the incorrectness of <i>English verse</i>, are most woefully insipid. -$Toynbee=, <i>Letters of Horace Walpole</i>, II, 82.

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    Event: 22729 | 17450328 | dl | $HHorace Walpole= to $Sir Horace Mann=, 29 March: The Town flocks to a new play of $Thomson='s call'd <i>Tancred and Sigismunda</i>: it is very dull: I have read it. I cannot bear modern poetry; these refiners of the purity of the stage, and of the incorrectness of <i>English verse</i>, are most woefully insipid. -$Toynbee=, <i>Letters of Horace Walpole</i>, II, 82
    Performance: 44677 | 22729 | p | Tancred And Sigismunda | Actors only, but See17450323.

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Title: Tancred And Sigismunda
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Actors only, but See17450323.
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Work Title: Tancred and Sigismunda
Associated Date?: 1745
Associated Playwright(s)?:
   James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Print Witness(es)
Title:Tancred and Sigismunda. A tragedy
Author(s):Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
Publication Date:1745
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