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The Sleeping Draught is an English farce in two acts by Samson Penley.
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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.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1832: Performed by the group called the English Theatricals in Cape Town on 20 September 1823, as afterpiece to Douglas (Home).
1832: 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").
1833: 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
Facsimile version of the 1818 edition, Google E-book[1]
http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=128
http://www.worldcat.org/title/sleeping-draught-a-farce-in-two-acts/oclc/26228337
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.197, 222, 225
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