This satiric, self-reflexive entertainment makes minimal changes to its source, Henry Fielding
's The Tragedy of Tragedies (itself adapted from his Tom Thumb, 1730). There has been controversy over the Opera's music, which...
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9 May 1755: David Mallet's masque Britannia, with music...
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9 May 1755
David Mallet
's masque Britannia, with music by Thomas Arne
, had its first performance.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
