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The casting vote
Title
The casting vote.
Publication
Weymouth : Printed by Commins, Library, Esplanade, [1841?]
Physical Description
39 pages ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 22-0016 copy purchased from Marlborough Rare Books in April, 2022.
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 22-0016 copy lacks cover.
Hicks classification: ZA B568 1841.
Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library copy has a few pencil annotations on the "Dramatis Personae" including Sir Henry Blackwood. This would be Capt. Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, RN, 2nd Bart (1801-1851). He was probably living at Weymouth in 1836 as his wife gave birth to a daughter there. It is likely that Blackwood cooperated with his friend or friends writing the play. It was also a topical subject as the borough of Weymouth was hold of the parliamentary seat was on a knife-edge Conservatives only held the seat by three votes in the 1841 election.
Bibliographic description is partially based on the information provided by the book dealer (Marlborough Rare Books).
Date of the publication is conjectured from the topic of the play corresponding to the election of 1841 in England.
Summary
A farce, which is about an election in an English town. The play brings up many issues such as public ballots, election bribery, elopement, and marrying young women to older man.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2022
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