The Rival Father: or, The Death of Achilles (1730)

Original id: 
11418
Start date: 
8 April 1730
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Tragedy. Based on Corneille's Mort d'Achille and Racine's Andromaque.
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Companies:
Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script Author(s)
Metamorphoses Ovid
Person Role Notes
W. S. Hatch Writer
Venue Festival Dates Notes
Little Theatre, Haymarket Theatre; Theatre Royal Haymarket (City of Westminster, Greater London, England) 8 April, 1730 There is uncertainty as to whether the theatre was called the 'Little Theatre' or the 'French Theatre' at this time
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s. Vol.1 Book library 14 Stratman 1966, p.233 / Nicoll 1959-66, 2:95, 334

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The Rival Father: or, The Death of Achilles (1730), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/11418 <19 March 2024>