Ye Mounted Warriors

Ye Mounted Warriors is a "military burlesque" by an unnamed author.

The original text

A possible performance of a burlesque by this name is apparently mentioned in Vane Bennett's 1885 biographical sketch of Disney Roebuck, but further information about a piece by this name has yet been found.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Was (to have been?) performed by either the Border Police in King Williamstown - or by Disney Roebuck and his company while performing in the town. In any case, some kind of unspecified trouble seems to have resulted between Roebuck and the police with regards to the piece, according to Bennett (and cited by F.C.L. Bosman, 1980, p. 358).

Sources

Vane Bennett 1885. Biographical and Memorial Sketch of Francis Algernon Disney Roebuck, Late Capt. 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Cape Town: Saul Solomon and Co.

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.358

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