The Happy Man

The Happy Man is a extravaganza in one act by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)

The original text
Described as "an extravaganza in one act" and performed in the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1839 and The National Theatre, Boston 1846.

Published in J. Dicks Standard Plays (1883) and W. V. Spencer, Boston in Spencer's Boston Theatre XLIII (18**).

Performance history in South Africa
1859: Reportedly performed as The Happy Man, or the Legend of - by Sefton Parry in the Harrington Street Theatre on 5 December. Billed as a one act burlesque acts, with a Spanish dance as interlude and Agnes de Vere, or A Wife’s Revenge (Buckstone).

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