Date
Location
Great Britain
Media format
Extent
Language
Size
Genre
Humor
Reference IDs
Folger call number: ART 268781(size M)
Folger holdings ID: 490606
Accession Number: 268781
Notes
General notes
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance The Prince of Wales leans forward from his seat on a settee to welcome with both arms Mrs. Billington. The singer enters from the right, raising a large drapery to reveal her face, her mouth open as if in song. She utters a chant of six lines beginning “Is the Coast clear? Thus do I shew my love....” The Prince replies: “oh Glorious Love, when kindred souls unite -- now undisturerd [sic] we’ll revel and be free.” At his side is an open book: Love’s Labor Lost. Other playbooks lie on the floor: The Double Disguise, The Fatal Marriage [or, The Innocent Adultery], and The School for Scandal. Billington is followed by a man (probably the Prince’s private secretary Sir John McMahon) who holds under his arm a large roll of papers labeled “Un Pacquet de Chansons.” The opera singer was the favorite mistress of the Prince at the time