Old Maids

{{Short description|1841 play}} {{Infobox play | name = Old Maids | image =File:Old Maids (Knowles).jpg | image_size = | caption = | writer = [[James Sheridan Knowles]] | setting = | date of premiere = 12 October 1841 | original language = English | place = [[Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]] | series = | subject = | genre = Comedy }} '''''Old Maids''''' is an 1841 [[comedy play]] by the Irish writer [[James Sheridan Knowles]].<ref>Walker p.265</ref> It was first staged at the [[Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]] in [[London]] on 12 October 1841.<ref>Nicoll p.339</ref> The cast included [[John Pritt Harley|John Harley]] as John Blount, [[George Vandenhoff]] as Thomas Blount, [[Walter Lacy]] as Robert, [[Robert William Honner]] as Harris, [[William Payne (pantomimist)|William Payne]] as Stephen, [[Alfred Wigan]] as Jacob, [[Lucia Elizabeth Vestris]] as Lady Blance and [[Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett|Louisa Nisbett]] as Lady Anne. It was produced towards the end of the theatrical career of Sheridan Knowles, before he turned to novel-writing.<ref>The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature p.733</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Burwick, Frederck Goslee, Nancy Moore & Hoeveler Diane Long . ''The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature''. John Wiley & Sons, 2012. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850''. Cambridge University Press, 1930. * Walker, Hugh. ''The Literature of the Victorian Era''. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1841 plays]] [[Category:West End plays]] [[Category:Irish comedy plays]] [[Category:Plays by James Sheridan Knowles]]

{{19thC-play-stub}}