St Patrick's Day, or The Scheming Lieutenant
St Patrick's Day, or The Scheming Lieutenant is play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)[1],
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The original text
It was first performed on 2 May 1775 at Covent Garden and published in 1788.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1833: Performed, as St Patrick’s Day, by the All the World's a Stage on 11 November, with The Iron Chest (Colman), and The Actress Of All Work, or Six in One (author not mentioned.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Day_(play)
E-book version of St. Patrick's day; or, the scheming lieutenant: A comic opera: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. By Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. Acessed at University of Oxford Text Archive[2], via Great Writers Inspire, Oxford University[3] on Wednesday, January 27, 2016.
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 227
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