The padlock
Subtitle: a farce, in two acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden.
By: By Mr. Isaac Bickerstaffe.
Contributors: Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Series: Three centuries of drama; Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1800
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Published: 1956
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Operas -- Librettos.
Genres: Librettos.
Work titles: Padlock.
Notes: Photographed from Inchbald, E.S., ed. A collection of farces and other afterpieces. London, 1809. 16 cm. v. 4.

First published in 1768.

Based on the "Jealous husband (El celoso extremeño") one of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplars.

Without the music by Charles Dibdin.

Micro-opaque of original in New York Public Library. New York, Readex Microprint, 1956. v.4 on 3 cards. 22.6 x 14.8 cm. (Three centuries of drama: English 1751-1800) (Three centuries of English and American plays 1500-1800)