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''[[The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross-bow Letter]]'' is a an original comic burletta in one act by Thomas Egerton Wilks (1812-1854)[]

Also found as ''[[The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross Bow Letter]]'', ''[[The Miller of Whetstone (or, The Cross Bow Letter)]]'' and ''[[The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross-Bow Letter]]'' 

==The original text==

Performed in the Princess Theatre , Leeds, 14 November and repeated 7 December, 1853, as an afterpiece to ''[[Hamlet]]''. (Billed as: ''[[The Miller of Whetstone (or, The Cross Bow Letter)]]''

Performed in the New Strand Theatre, London, on 1 August 1857

==Translations and adaptations==

==Performances in South Africa==

1859: Performed as ''[[The Miller of Whetstone or The Cross Bow Letter]]'' by [[Juvenile Amateurs]] in Cape Town on 23 June, along with ''[[William Tell, A Telling Version of an Old Tell Tale]]'' (Rossini/Buckingham) and ''[[The Fire Eater]]'' (Selby).

1861: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Juvenile Amateurs]], assisted by [[Annie Rowlands]], with ''[[The Queer Subject]]'' (Coyne)  and ''[[Chesterfield Thinskin]]'' (Maddox)

==Sources==

Leeds Play Bills, [http://www.leodis.net/playbills/item.asp?ri=200393_78753299#]

Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. ''History of English Drama, 1660-1900'', Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: pp.99, 623, 662[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=CHa3njx5AzYC&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=The+Miller+of+Whetstone,+or+The+Cross-bow+Letter&source=bl&ots=d79vqxTjsb&sig=GKt-OZh8h8N8C-G6Ovz3YMWrSww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDgrHQgKbfAhVOThUIHX5bBgoQ6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Miller%20of%20Whetstone%2C%20or%20The%20Cross-bow%20Letter&f=false]

''[[The Victorian Plays Project]]'', Volume 7[http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=72]

Online Books by Thomas Egerton Wilks, [[The Online Books Page]] [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Wilks%2C%20Thomas%20Egerton%2C%201812-1854]

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 165-6, 


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