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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
Performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by  [[All the World's a Stage]] on 29 April 1834, along with Jerrold's ''[[The Bride of Ludgate]]''
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1834: Performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by  [[All the World's a Stage]] on 29 April 1834, along with Jerrold's ''[[The Bride of Ludgate]]''
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:34, 24 April 2015

by Isaac Pocock. A romantic drama in two acts.


The original play

It was apparently adapted from the German opera Der schlafende Räuber oder Die Räuberbrau ("The sleeping robber" or "The robber's bride"), with a libretto by J. Jos. Reiff and music by Ferdinand Ries. It had its première in Frankfurt on 15th October 1828, published 1829.

The English prose version by Isaac Pocock was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Thursday, January 7th, 1830. The acting text, with notes added, published in London : John Cumberland in 1835.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1834: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 29 April 1834, along with Jerrold's The Bride of Ludgate

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock

http://www.worldcat.org/title/robbers-wife-a-romantic-drama-in-two-acts/oclc/35993771

http://www.ferdinand-ries.de/english/frankfurt.html

Ferdinand Ries, Brief an Franz Gerhard Wegeler in Koblenz, Godesberg, 24. Oktober 1826[1]

Bosman, 1928: pp 228

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