A tale of mystery
Subtitle: a melo-drame ; as performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden
By: by Thomas Holcroft.
Contributors: Pixérécourt, R.-C. Guilbert de 1773-1844.; Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814.
Edition: 2nd ed. / with etchings after designs by Tresham.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 40048.
Publisher: Published by Richard Phillips
Published: 1802
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 51
Notes: "Dramatis personae": p. [10]

Without the music (by Thomas Busby)

First edition, London, 1802; first performed 13 November, 1802.

"The first English play to be announced as a 'melo-drama.'--A. C. Baugh. Literary history of England.

An adaptation of Pixérécourt's Coelina ou l'Enfant du mystère, a dramatization of Ducray-Duminil's romance of the same name. cf. W. S. Dye. Study of melodrama in England from 1800 to 1840; F. Heel. Guilbert de Pixérécourt.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 40048)