The Mysterious Husband Explained

The Mysterious Husband
Date Of Premiere:	28 January 1783
Original Language:	English
Place:	Covent Garden Theatre, London
Genre:	Drama

The Mysterious Husband is a play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It is a Domestic drama with a tragic ending, first performed in 1783. Along with several other Cumberland plays it was influenced by the 1768 gothic play The Mysterious Mother by Horace Walpole.^[1]

The original Covent Garden cast included John Henderson as Lord Davenant (a part written for him),^[2] William Thomas Lewis as Charles Davenant, Richard Wroughton as Captain Dorner, Richard Yates as Sir Edmund Travers, Elizabeth Satchell as Marianne and Elizabeth Younge as Lady Davenant.^[3]

References

1. Frank p.256
2. Book: Mudford, William. The life of Richard Cumberland, esq. London. Sherwood, Neely and Jones. 1812. 413.
3. Hogan p.588

Bibliography

• Frank, Frederick S (ed.). The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother. Broadview Press, 2003.
• Hogan, C.B (ed.) The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume V. Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.
• Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Volume III: Late Eighteenth Century Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1952.