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music composed by Collins for the first production of the play mounted in England
This misstates Collins's connection to the play. Contemporary biographical sources say she wrote a minuet for the first performances in English in the United States, at New York's Lyceum Theater—not for a production in England.
Full reasoning
A contemporary biographical source for Laura Sedgwick Collins says: "She composed a minuet for the first performances in English in this country of 'Les Precieuses Ridicules,' given at the Lyceum Theater, New York." That places Collins's work in New York and describes it as part of the play's first English-language performances in the United States.
The article's wording changes that into "the first production of the play mounted in England," which is a different claim altogether. It relocates the production from New York to England and changes "first performances in English in this country" into "first production ... in England."
A standard reference on the play itself also notes that Les Précieuses ridicules is a Molière comedy from 1659, first produced in Paris, reinforcing that the statement in the article is not describing the play's actual first production and that Collins's contribution was to a later English-language performance in New York, not England.
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- Woman of the Century/Laura Sedgwick Collins - Wikisource
She composed a minuet for the first performances in English in this country of "Les Precieuses Ridicules," given at the Lyceum Theater, New York.
- les Précieuses ridicules - Larousse
Comédie en 1 acte et en prose de Molière (1659) ; sa première création parisienne et son premier succès.