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''[[The Flowers of the Forest: A Gypsy Story]]'' is a drama in three acts by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802–79)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone].

==The original text==

A play about the trial of an innocent gentleman, Alfred, for a murder that was really committed by a Gypsy boy, Lemuel.First performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1847 and at the Howard Athenaeum, Boston, in 1849 and The Bowery Theatre, 1852. Published by ** in London, 1847 and in New York by Samuel French in 1855(?)

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==


1876: Performed by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Athenaeum Hall]], Cape Town, on 8 June, with ''[[Brown and the Brahmins]]'' (Reece).

== Sources ==

Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of 1855(?)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=j85ZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]

https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/img011c.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|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]]: pp.

[[William Groom]]. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. ''Cape Illustrated Magazine'', 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708. 

Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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