Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!

Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands! is a burlesque by Henry J. Byron (1835-1884)

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This is one of three works written (or co-written) by Byron, all based on Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. The others are a burlesque called Robinson Crusoe, or The Injun Bride and the Injured Wife (1867), and a pantomime called Robinson Crusoe, or Friday and the Fairies (1868).

Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands! is described as a "grotesque pantomime opening", invented and written by Henry James Byron". Also referred to as a burlesque in the Samuel French edition.

First performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre on the 26th of December, 1860, and published by Samuel French

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