The Hunchback

The Hunchback is a play in five acts by James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862)

The original text
First performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in 1832, with Fanny Kemble, Charles Kemble and Knowles himself in the cast. Published in London the same year by E. Moxon.

Performance history in South Africa
1877: Performed by the Disney Roebuck Company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 15 November, with Betsy Baker, or Too Attentive by Half  (Morton).

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