The Sword of Peace is a 1788 comedy play by the British writer Mariana Starke. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 9 August 1788.Greene p.4496 The original London cast included Robert Baddeley as the Resident, Stephen Kemble as David Northcote, James Brown Williamson as Mr Edwards, John Palmer as Lieutenant Dormer, Robert Palmer as Supple, John Bannister as Jeffreys, William Chapman as Mazinghi Dowza, Elizabeth Farren as Miss Eliza Moreton, Elizabeth Kemble as Miss Louisa Moreton, Mary Whitfield as Mrs Tartar and Elizabeth Edwin as Mrs Gobble. Like her later play The Widow of Malabar (1790) it capitalised on Starke's own knowledge of India.Burroughs p.102
Synopsis Two sisters Eliza and Louisa Moreton travel out to British India in search of husbands.
References
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