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The Alchemist, His Majesty's Company of Comedians

Play: The Alchemist

Theatre City:Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Date:25 Oct. 1721

Company: His Majesty's Company of Comedians

Principal Manager:Colley Cibber, Barton Booth, Robert Wilks

Principal Actors: Mills (Face), Cibber (Subtle), Norris (Dapper), Penkethman (Abel Drugger), Harper (Sir Epicure), Griffin (Tribulation), Johnson (Ananias), Miller (Kastril), Mrs Wetherilt (Doll)

Source Or Contemporary Comment: Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Division I, Satires , 2.587-8; The Weekly Journal; or, British Gazetteer , 16 Dec. 1721; [Richardson Pack], The Lives of Miltiades and Cimon. With Poems on Several Occasions , 1725, 48-50; The Gentleman's Magazine , 95 (1825), part 1, 100-2; Whitehall Evening Post , 26 Oct. 1721; Applebee's Original Weekly Journal , 28 Oct. 1721; Daily Courant , 25 Oct. 1721

London Stage Reference:Part 2: 643