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''[[Guy Mannering, or The Gipsey's Prophecy]]'' 
is a musical play in three acts by Daniel Terry (1780?-1829)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Terry], with music by which Henry Bishop (1786–1855)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bishop_(composer)]. 

Sometimes simply referred to as ''[[Guy Mannering]]''.

==The original text==

Based on Sir Walter Scott's novel ''Guy Mannering or The Astrologer'' (1815), which was dramatised by Scott's associate Daniel Terry and first performed in London on 12 March 1816 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, with a musical score by Henry Bishop. Originally published by John Miller, London, in 1816. In 1860 Samuel French, New York, published an American edition of the text, with a useful short editorial introduction by "H.L.".

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==


1836: Performed as ''[[Guy Mannering]]'' in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 31 August, with ''[[The Review]]'' (Colman Jr) as afterpiece.

1884-5: Performed  as ''[[Guy Mannering]]'' by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s  first season as lessee and manager of the venue.

== Sources ==


https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009721724

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

Facsimile version of the original 1816 published playtext: Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=qBkOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Guy+Mannering,+or+The+Gipsey's+Prophecy&source=bl&ots=SnXK4whn69&sig=PHGK_XmXdduYR33oYjAi6UqcR_g&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUwuD5gJrNAhUIDxoKHTreCucQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=Guy%20Mannering%2C%20or%20The%20Gipsey's%20Prophecy&f=false]

Facsimile version of the 1860 published playtext, with an editorial introduction: The Internet Archive[https://archive.org/stream/guymanneringorgi00terr#page/n3/mode/2up] 

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 196, 

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