The Sleeping Draught

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An English farce in two acts by Samson Penley, based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio. The first edition announces it as follows: "As Performed with distinguished Applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. By S.Penley, Comedian. , London: Richard White, 1818."

Performance history in South Africa

Performed by the group called the English Theatricals in Cape Town on 20 September 1823, as afterpiece to Douglas (Home).


Translations and adaptations

Sources

First edition frontispiece, sourced from UKBookWorld.com [1]

Bosman, 1928: pp 197,

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