Difference between revisions of "Exchange No Robbery, or The Diamond Ring"
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| − | The play's central incident is based on an earlier work called [[He Would be a Soldier]] by Frederick Pilon. | + | The play's central incident is based on an earlier work called ''[[He Would be a Soldier]]'' by Frederick Pilon. |
Performed for the first time on August 12, 1820, at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket and published by Wright in 1820. | Performed for the first time on August 12, 1820, at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket and published by Wright in 1820. | ||
Revision as of 05:54, 6 July 2016
Exchange No Robbery, or The Diamond Ring is a three-act comedy by Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841).
Also referred to simply as Exchange No Robbery in later editions.
The original text
The play's central incident is based on an earlier work called He Would be a Soldier by Frederick Pilon.
Performed for the first time on August 12, 1820, at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket and published by Wright in 1820.
Later also performed at the Theatres Royal at Covent Garden and at Drury Lane, and published as Exchange No Robbery with explanatory notes by John Cumberland in 1825.
Performances in South Africa
1825: Produced in Cape Town as Exchange No Robbery, or The Diamond Ring by the Garrison Players on 8 October, 1825, (along with The Midnight Hour (Dumaniant/Inchbald). The players included Mr Hanson, Mr Troward, Mr Watt, Sgt Corbishley. Mr Rundle, Mr St John, Howell, Master Canterbury, Mrs Black, Mrs Gouland, Mr Mills, Mrs O'Brien.
Sources
Entry on Exchange no Robbery or The Diamond Ring in Google Books[1]
Facsimile version of the 1825 London edition of the text by John Cumberland, 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.188
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