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| − | "A Ballad Farce" by Charles Coffey. While it is often attributed to Colley alone, it was apparently co-authored with John Mottley. According to Cumberland's British Theatre (as cited in John Hopkins library catalogue[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_395134]), it was based on Thomas Jevon's ''The devil of a wife'' (1686), which was turned into an opera by Charles Coffey and John Mottley, and later reduced to one act by Colley Cibber and called a "comic opera". In 1831 this version was printed as two acts. | + | A "Ballad Farce" by Charles Coffey. |
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
| + | '''See ''[[The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd]]''''' |
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| − | Performed in Cape Town's [[African Theatre]] on 28 June 1802
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| − | in celebration of the King's birthday. It was performed alongside ''[[The Little Hunchback, or A Frolic in Bagdad]]'' (O'Keeffe), ''[[The Interlude of the Magic Zone]]'' and ''[[The Cunning Wife, or The Lover in the Sack]]'' (Petersen). It is most probably the Cibber version they used in this full programme.
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| − | Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Devil_to_Pay_Or_The_Wives_Metamorpho.html?id=aC1TAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y]
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| − | John Hopkins library catalogue[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_395134]
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| − | The Library Company of Philadelphia[http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000098785]
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 68-9;
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| − | Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
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