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The Maid of the Mill is a comic opera by Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733-1808)[1]
Contents
The original text
Written and performed in 1765 as The Maide of the Mill, with music by Samuel Arnold and others.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1862: Performed as The Maid of the Mill by Clara Tellett and her company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 2 August, with Love in Humble Life(Scribé/Payne) and A Perfect Cure (Sapte).
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.131,
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