Bon Ton

Bon Ton; or, High Life Above Stairs is a comedy act in two acts by David Garrick, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 18 March 1775. According to Garrick's introductory notice to the play, it had been written many years before.^[1]

The play's subtitle connects it to an earlier play, the 1759 High Life Below Stairs, by James Townley.^[2]

References

↑ Elizabeth Stein (2005). David Garrick, Dramatist. Kessinger Publishing, 52–3. ISBN 1-4179-8798-7. Retrieved on 2 August 2011.
↑ {{cite web | url = https://dro.dur.ac.uk/19919/1/19919.pdf | title = “Stage-plays [...] and a thousand other amusements now in use”: Garrick’s response to antitheatrical discourse in the mid-eighteenth century | publisher = [[Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre research., | volume = 29 | number = 2 | author = Gillian Skinner | date = 2015 | pages = 63-82 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2022-06-12 | url-status = live | quote = Bon Ton’s subtitle overtly connects the two-act comedy with an earlier afterpiece, James Townley’s High Life Below Stairs (1759). }}

[1] Elizabeth Stein (2005). David Garrick, Dramatist. Kessinger Publishing, 52–3. ISBN 1-4179-8798-7. Retrieved on 2 August 2011.

[Durham1000-2] {{cite web | url = https://dro.dur.ac.uk/19919/1/19919.pdf | title = “Stage-plays [...] and a thousand other amusements now in use”: Garrick’s response to antitheatrical discourse in the mid-eighteenth century | publisher = [[Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre research., | volume = 29 | number = 2 | author = Gillian Skinner | date = 2015 | pages = 63-82 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2022-06-12 | url-status = live | quote = Bon Ton’s subtitle overtly connects the two-act comedy with an earlier afterpiece, James Townley’s High Life Below Stairs (1759). }}

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