''The Double Mistake'' is a 1766

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by the British writer

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. It was her most successful play along with ''

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''.Birch & Drabble p.443 The original Covent Garden cast included David Ross as Lord Belmont,

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as Sir Charles Somerville, Thomas Hull as Elder Freeman,

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as Emily and Maria Macklin as Lady Mary,

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as Lady Louisa and John Cushing as Servant.

References

Bibliography

* Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. ''The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. * Birch, Dinah & Drabble, Margaret. ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature''. OUP Oxford, 2009. * Watson, George. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800''. Cambridge University Press, 1971. 1766 plays British comedy plays West End plays Plays by Elizabeth Griffith {{1760s-play-stub