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The Somnabulist is a play in two acts by William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)[1]
Also found as The Somnambulist, or The Phantom of the Village
Called "A Dramatic Entertainment", it is in fact in a burlesque based on La Sonnambula ("The Sleepwalker") an opera semiseria in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani, in turn based on La Somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un Nouveau Seigneur, a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer.
Published as Issue 224 of Dicks' Standard Plays. Published as The Somnambulist, or The Phantom of the Village by J. Cumberland, 1899
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_sonnambula
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