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The Magpie, or The Maid? is a melodrama in 3 acts by Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[1].

It is based on La Pie voleuse, by Louis-Charles Caigniez and Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny.

It was first printed in 1814 and a second edition appeared in 1816.

Also published as The Magpie; Or, the Maid of Palaiseau. A Melodramatic Romance" by John Murray in 1815.

The French play was also the source for Giovanni Gherardini's libretto for Rossini's opera La gazza ladra (1817).

1832: Performed on 9 June 1832 by All the World's a Stage under the title The Maid and the Magpie, or Who's the Thief!!! (Pocock), announced as a "new domestic melodrama" by the company. (Bosman, 1928: p221-2). It was accompanied by The Married Bachelor, or Master and Man (O'Callaghan) and Bombastes Furioso, or The King of Utopia (Rhodes).

1835: Performed as The Magpie , or The Maid? as a benefit performance for Mrs Westcott in the Cape Town on 8 October 1835 by the Garrison Players, with Love, Law and Physic (Kenney) as afterpiece.

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.195, 221-2,

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