Lionel and Clarissa, a Comic Opera (W. Griffin, London 1768) Read here.
J. Adolphus, Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian Vol. 2 (Richard Bentley, London 1839), pp. 174–76.
Thomas Dibdin, 'Songs, naval and national, of the late Charles Dibdin, with a Memoir... with characteristic sketches by George Cruikshank' (John Murray, London 1841), p. xiii.
For Dibdin's portrayal of nautical character, see VIII, 'Wapping High Street' in Walter G. Bell, Unknown London (John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1922), pp. 107-27.
For a very extended listing of Dibdin's operas, 1764-1788, see Margaret Ross Griffel, Operas in English: A Dictionary Revised Edition (Scarecrow Press, 2012), pp. 748-750 Read here.
For a description of the character of Mungo, see The Private Correspondence of David Garrick Vol. 1 (Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London 1831), p. xlvi. For an illustration of Dibdin in the role, see 'Mr. Dibden in the Character of Mungo in the Celebrated Opera of the Padlock', engraved for Robert Sayer and John Smith, Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage (London 1769–73), (after miniature drawing by Johann Ludwig Wernhard Fäsch, cf. Harvard University, Houghton Library Catalogue ref. MS Thr 647): See at Folger Shakespeare Library, ART File D544.5 [1].
For a discussion of the impact of this role, see Monica L. Miller, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (Duke University Press, 2010), Chapter 1 'Mungo Macaroni' at pp. 27–31.
The Waterman; or, The First of August: A Ballad Opera, in Two Acts (T. Becket, London 1774). Cast: Tug, Charles Bannister; Mr Bundle, Mr Wilson; Robin, Mr. Weston; Mrs Bundle, Mrs Thompson; Wilelmina, Mrs Jewell. Read here.
See a letter of 1775 from Dibdin to Garrick, defending himself against an imputation of breach of contract, in Private Correspondence of David Garrick, Vol. 2 (1832), pp.119–20.
The meaning of 'Sans-Souci' is expressed in a poem, 'Le Philosophe de Sans-Souci', sent by the Revd. P. Stockdale to David Garrick, with the intention that Dibdin should compose an air for it, in 1773. See Private Correspondence of David Garrick Vol. 1 (1831), pp. 576–77.
John O'Keeffe, 'Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe', in The New Monthly Magazine Vol. XVII, No. LXVII, July 1826, pp. 17-30, at p. 20.
W. Kitchiner (ed.), The Sea Songs of Charles Dibdin, with a Memoir of his Life and Writings (G. and W.B. Whittaker, London 1823) [2]
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