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Revision as of 06:11, 26 September 2018
The Young Scamp is a sketch in one scene by Charles White ()[].
This is not to be confused with The Young Scamp, or My Grandmother's Pet by Edward Stirling.
The original text
It is apparently a Christy's style piece, described as an Ethiopian sketch or Negro farce in various sources. Published as no 85 in De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama.
1868: Performed by the Young Men’s Institute Amateur Christy’s in either the Mutual Hall or the Cape Town Institute and Club, Cape Town. (Billed as a "Negro farce")
Sources
Listing of De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama De Witt's in The Publishers' Trade List Annual, Volume 11[1]
Listing of De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama in the De Witt's 18** published text of the play Black and White (Wilkie Collins and Charles Fechter)[2]
