The Honest Thieves

A farce in two acts by Thomas Knight (died 1820).

(Sometimes referred to simply as “Honest Thieves”)

The original text

A two-act abridgment of The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman (Also simply referred to as The Committee) , a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), which had probably first been performed in London in 1662, and printed 1665.

First performed as The Honest Thieves in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 9 May 1797

Printed in London for and under the direction of G. Cawthorn, 1797.

Performance history in South Africa

1843: Performed in the Amateur Theatre in Hope Street by All the World's a Stage, as afterpiece to Wenlock of Wenlock, or The Spirit of the Black Mantle (Wilks)

1846: performed on 2 January 1846 by the amateurs of the 45th Regiment in the barracks at Fort Napier, as afterpiece to Zorinski by Thomas Morton.

Sources

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Knight,_Thomas_(d.1820)_(DNB00)

Facsimile version of the 1797 text, Google eBooks[1]

https://archive.org/details/sirroberthowards00howarich

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honest_Thieves.html?id=TQ9OnQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

http://www.worldcat.org/title/honest-thieves-a-farce-in-two-acts-altered-from-the-committee-by-t-knight-first-acted-at-the-theatre-royal-covent-garden-may-9-1797/oclc/316658917

http://archive.org/stream/sirroberthowards00howarich/sirroberthowards00howarich_djvu.txt

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Wenlock_of_Wenlock.html?id=8QrKQAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 413, 510.

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