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''[[The Maid and the Magpie, or The Fatal Spoon!]]'' is a [[burlesque]] [[burletta]] [in verse] by Henry James Byron ()[].
  

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The Maid and the Magpie, or The Fatal Spoon! is a burlesque burletta [in verse] by Henry James Byron ()[].

Also referred to as The Maid and The Magpie Travestie in the text.

The original text

Founded on the opera La Gazza Ladra by G. M.S.C. Gherardini ()[], it was first performed at the Strand Theatre on 11 October, 1858. The text published by Thomas Hailes Lacy , 1859.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Facsimile version of the original text, Google E-book[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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