The Clandestine Marriage

William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-mode, panel 1. "The Marriage Settlement", which inspired Colman and Garrick to write The Clandestine Marriage.

The Clandestine Marriage is a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, first performed in 1766 at Drury Lane.[1] It is both a comedy of manners and a comedy of errors. The idea came from a series of pictures by William Hogarth entitled Marriage à-la-mode.[2]

  1. ^ Thomson, Peter. "Garrick, David". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10408. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Colman, George; Garrick, David (1766). The Clandestine Marriage. London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt.