The Miser of Shoreditch
The Miser of Shoreditch is a romantic drama in two acts by T.P. Prest (Thomas Peckett Prest, 1810-1859?)[1].
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The original text
An adaptation by Prest of his own novel, The Miser of Shoreditch, or The Curse of Avarice ("An original historical legendary romance of the fifteenth century", originally published in 1849), the play was first performed as The Miser of Shoreditch at the Royal Standard Theatre, Shoreditch on 2 November, 1854
The text was published in the same year by Thomas Hailes Lacy as no. 367 in Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays volume XVII, in 1857 in New York, with the author now given as "Angelina" (the pseudonym of T.P. Prest) and in 1878 by Samuel French in London,.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1864: Performed by the amateurs of the 11th Regiment in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on 5 April, with Slasher & Crasher (Morton).
Sources
Facsimile version of the Lacy text of 18, the Internet Archive [2]
Montague Summers. 1931. A Gothic Bibliography. Dalcassian Publishing Company: p. 416, Google E-book[3]
Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852-1866. October - December 1854, [4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Peckett_Prest
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.256
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