Love the Cause and Cure of Grief explained

Love the Cause and Cure of Grief
Date Of Premiere:	19 December 1743
Original Language:	English
Place:	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Genre:	Tragedy

Love the Cause and Cure of Grief is a 1743 tragedy by the British writer Thomas Cooke. It is a revised version of Cooke's earlier published but unperformed play The Mournful Nuptials.^[1]

It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a cast that included Dennis Delane as Weldon, Henry Giffard as Briar, William Havard as Young Freeman, Richard Winstone as Judge and Anna Marcella Giffard as Charlotte.

Bibliography

• Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Watson, George. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660–1800. Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Notes and References

1. Watson p.541