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The Country Squire (or The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall) is a comedy in two acts by Charles Dance (1794–1863)[1]

First performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in London, on January 19th 1837.

The full title as published in Webster's Acting National Drama by Chapman and Hall in 18**, is The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall, though it is wrongly given by Bosmnan (p.416) as The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill, though this may have been an error by the performers rather than the historian.

1848: Performed by All the World's a Stage in Cape Town as The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill on Thursday 21 September 1848 in the Hope Street Theatre, accompanied by the "celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders", a clog hornpipe performance and some comic songs, before concluding with the farce Advice Gratis by Charles Dance.

Facsimile version of the third edition (1840), Google E-book[2]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp.

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Performed by [[All the World's a Stage]] in Cape Town as ''[[The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill]]'' on Thursday 21 September 1848 in the [[Hope Street Theatre]], accompanied by the "celebrated [[Ethiopian Serenaders]]", a clogg hornpipe performance, and some comic songs, and concluding with the farce ''[[Advice Gratis]]'' by Charles Dance.
+: Performed by [[All the World's a Stage]] in Cape Town as ''[[The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill]]'' on Thursday 21 September 1848 in the [[Hope Street Theatre]], accompanied by the "celebrated [[Ethiopian Serenaders]]",  a clog hornpipe performance and some comic songs, before  concluding with the farce ''[[Advice Gratis]]'' by Charles Dance.
 == Sources ==