Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1783-12-02
This day my father dined out; in the evening I went to the Drury Lane Theatre, had the Beaux Stratagem with the Ladies
Frolick.
1
George Farquhar's The Beaux' Strategem, London, 1707; The Ladies' Frolick, London, 1770, by James Love, pseudonym for
James Dance (
Biographia
Dramatica
; Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English
Drama, 1600–1900, 6 vols., Cambridge, Eng., 1952–1959, 2:322; 3:283).