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''[[The Young Scamp]]'' is a sketch in one scene by an anonymous author.
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#REDIRECT[[Young Scamp]]
 
 
'''Not to be confused with ''[[The Young Scamp, or My Grandmother's Pet]]'' by Edward Stirling'''
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
A version of the text was published by published by William Barth, in ''A Selection of New and Popular Dramas and Farces'', 1844, and apparently also published by T.H. Lacy before 1849.
 
 
 
 
 
1868: Performed by the [[Young Men’s Institute Amateur Christy’s]] in the Cape Town.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
A facsimile version of the text, in ''A Selection of New and Popular Dramas and Farces'',  William Barth, 1844[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=8BFr2yHZv-IC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=The+Young+Scamp+negro+farce&source=bl&ots=yNqsaYnjif&sig=a4mmsQW9Hb6ZRSh2i_u-Udc4jzM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifw9TN3dfdAhXsKcAKHXcBB0oQ6AEwBHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Young%20Scamp%20negro%20farce&f=false]
 
 
 
Full listing of plays available from T. H. Lacy, contained in Volume 77 of ''Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces and Extravagances, Etc., Etc: As Performed at the Various Theatres'' (T. H. Lacy's 1849)[]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
 
 
It is apparently a [[Christy's]] style piece, described as an [[Ethiopian sketch]] or [[Negro farce]] in various sources. Published as no 85 in De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama.
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
 
 
Listing of ''De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama'' in the De Witt's 18** published text of the play ''[[Black and White]]'' (Wilkie Collins and Charles Fechter)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=J-3tAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=The+Young+Scamp+negro+farce&source=bl&ots=AHVeIT721n&sig=dIfQEgZKWXjHkH3c47m7TE3TL2k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjzrWx19fdAhVIQMAKHeNTBpMQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Young%20Scamp%20negro%20farce&f=false]
 

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