{{Short description|1817 play}} {{Infobox play | name = The Innkeeper's Daughter | image = File:Innkeepers Daughter.jpg | image_size = | caption = | writer = [[George Soane]] | setting = | date of premiere = 7 April 1817 | original language = English | place = [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], [[London]] | series = | subject = | genre = Melodrama }} '''''The Innkeeper's Daughter''''' is an 1817 stage [[melodrama]] by the British writer [[George Soane]]. It was loosely based on the ballad ''Mary the Maid of the Inn'' by [[Robert Southey]].<ref>Raby p.15</ref> It premiered at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] in [[London]] on 7 April 1817.<ref>Nicoll p.403</ref> The original cast included [[Henry Gattie]] as Frankland, [[James William Wallack]] as Richard, [[Thomas Cooke (actor)|Thomas Cooke]] as Hans Ketzler, [[Frances Maria Kelly]] as Mary and [[Sarah Harlowe]] as Marian. The music was composed by [[Thomas Simpson Cooke]]. Its Irish debut was at the [[Crow Street Theatre]] in [[Dublin]] on 19 January 1818.<ref>Greene p.4538</ref>
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==Bibliography== * Greene, John C. ''Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6''. Lexington Books, 2011. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850''. Cambridge University Press, 1930. * Raby, Peter. ''Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz''. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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