The Sleeping Draught - Revision history

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Performance history in South Africa

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The original text

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Performed by the group called the [[English Theatricals]] in Cape Town on 20 September 1823, as afterpiece to ''[[Douglas]]'' (Home).
+: Performed by the group called the [[English Theatricals]] in Cape Town on 20 September, as afterpiece to ''[[Douglas]]'' (Home).
 : Performed by [[All the World's a Stage]] in Cape Town on 30 January,  along with ''[[The Iron Chest, or The Blood-Stained Knife]]'' (Colman) and ''[[The Lawyer in the Sack, or Jack's Return!!!]]'' (a "ballet with dancing").
 : Performed as ''[[The Sleeping Draught, or A Calf to be Killed!!!]]'' by [[All the World's a Stage]] in Cape Town on 30 March, as afterpiece to ''[[Bertram, or The Castle of St. Aldobrand]]'' (Maturin).
 == Sources ==

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 ''[[The Sleeping Draught]]'' is an English farce in two acts by Samson Penley.
 == The original text ==
-Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White and T. Searle in 1818 and Baltimore by J. Robinson, in the same year.
+Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed (possibly in a one act version) in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published - as a two act farce - in London by Richard White and T. Searle in 1818 and Baltimore by J. Robinson, in the same year.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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-''[[The Sleeping Draught]]'' is an English farce in two acts by Samson Penley (1792–1838).
+''[[The Sleeping Draught]]'' is an English farce in two acts by S. Penley (Samson, or Sampson, Penley, 1792–1838).
 == The original text ==
-Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White and T. Searle in the same year.
+Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White and T. Searle in 1818 and Baltimore by J. Robinson, in the same year.
 ==Translations and adaptations==
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 http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=128
 [[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.197, 222, 225

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-[[The Sleeping Draught]] is an English farce in two acts by Samson Penley,
+''[[The Sleeping Draught]]'' is an English farce in one act by Samson Penley
 == The original text ==
-Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio.
+Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White in the same year.
 ==Translations and adaptations==
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 Frontispiece to the first edition of ''The Sleeping Draught'' (1818), sourced from ''UKBookWorld.com'' [http://ukbookworld.com/book-details/bristow/1048/penley-the-sleeping-draught-farce-two-acts-performed-with-distinguished-applause-the-theatre-royal-d]
 [[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.197, 222, 225