{{Short description|1759 comedy play by James Townley}} {{Infobox play | name = High Life Below Stairs | image =File:Harvard Theatre Collection - TCS 63 - Covent Garden, 1777.jpg | image_size = | caption = The play on a 1777 Covent Garden double bill | writer = James Townley | setting = | date of premiere = 31 October 1759 | original language = English | place = Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London | series = | subject = | genre = Comedy }} '''''High Life Below Stairs''''' is a 1759 comedy play by the British writer James Townley.<ref>Worrall p. 30</ref> An afterpiece, it premiered at Drury Lane on a double bill with a revival of Congreve's ''The Mourning Bride''. A popular hit, it was frequently revived.
The original Drury Lane cast John Palmer as Duke's servant, Thomas King as Sir Harry's servant, William O'Brien as Lovel, Richard Yates as Philip, John Hayman Packer as Freeman, Thomas Mozeen as Tom, John Moody as Kingston Mary Bradshaw as Cook, Frances Abington as Lady Bab's maid and Kitty Clive as Kitty.
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==Bibliography== * Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. ''The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660–1789''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. * Watson, George. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660–1800''. Cambridge University Press, 1971. * Worrall, David. ''Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment''. Routledge, 2015.
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Category:1759 plays Category:British comedy plays Category:West End plays
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