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A play by Thomas Morton.  A two-act musical entertainment. (Wrongly listed by [[F.C.L. Bosman]]  as "The Children of the Wood" in his 1928 history of, South African theatre.)
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#REDIRECT[[The Children in the Wood]]
 
 
First performed at the Haymarket 1 October 1793. A pirated edition published in Dublin, 1794.  Printed for John Rice
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
23 June 1831: Performed in Cape Town by [[All the World's a Stage]] in the [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] as ''[[The Children of the Wood]]'', with ''[[Richard III|Richard the Third, or The Battle of Bosworth's Field]]'' (Shakespeare).
 
 
 
1837: Brought to  in Cape Town as a part of a puppet show put on by the so-called "[[Automata]]" or "[[Automaton]] Figures", large mechanical puppets, by [[W.F.H. Parker]] in 1837. It was performed (under its correct title of [[Children in the Wood]]), along with ''[[Polander]]'', the dramatic play ''[[The Enchanted Turk]]'' and ''[[Joey Grimaldi's Trip to Brentford]]''.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(playwright)
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: p. 216, 231
 
 
 
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