{{Short description|1781 tragedy by Robert Jephson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox play | name =The Count of Narbonne | image =File:The Count of Narbonne.jpg | image_size = | caption = | writer = Robert Jephson | setting = | date of premiere = 17 November 1781<ref>Hogan p.476</ref> | original language = English | place = Covent Garden Theatre, London | series = | subject = | genre = Tragedy }} '''''The Count of Narbonne''''' is a 1781 tragedy by the Irish writer Robert Jephson.<ref>Nicoll p.277</ref> It was inspired by Horace Walpole's novel ''The Castle of Otranto''.
It premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre. The original cast featured John Henderson as Austin, Richard Wroughton as Raymond, William Thomas Lewis as Theodore, James Thompson as Fabian, James Fearon as Officer, Mary Morton as Jacqueline, Elizabeth Satchell as Adelaide and Elizabeth Younge as Hortensia.<ref>Hogan p.476</ref>
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==Bibliography== * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of English Drama 1660–1900: Volume III''. Cambridge University Press, 2009. * Hogan, C.B (ed.) ''The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume V''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.
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