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Thread #40625   Message #1898033
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Dec-06 - 12:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Subject: RE: Origins: Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Reference for 'Risk' ?

The only copy on line at Levy Collection is incomplete (London printing, nd).

The Library of Congress has "Love Laughs at Locksmiths," George Colman, a comic opera in two acts, in a New York 2nd. edition, pub. by D. Longworth, 1808, taken from the 1st London edition of 1806, 47 pp.
Printing of a 2nd. ed. indicates that the play was popular in America.

They also have a copy printed in London by J. Cumberland, no date.

Edith Wray, English Adaptations of French Drama between 1780 and 1815, Modern Language Notes, Feb. 1928, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 87-90, lists "Love Laughs at Locksmiths" as an 'adaptation' of the French play. Not seen, so I can't comment on the degree of adaptation.