The Miser of Shoreditch

The Miser of Shoreditch is a romantic drama in two acts by T.P. Prest (Thomas Peckett Prest, 1810-1859?)[1].

The original text

An adaptation by Prest of his own novel, The Miser of Shoreditch, or The Curse of Avarice ("An original historical legendary romance of the fifteenth century", originally published in 1849), the play was first performed as The Miser of Shoreditch at the Royal Standard Theatre, Shoreditch on 2 November, 1854

The text was published in the same year as no. 367 in Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays volume XVIII, and in 1857 in New York, with the author now given as "Angelina" (the pseudonym of T.P. Prest).

Performance history in South Africa

1864: Performed by the amateurs of the 11th Regiment in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on 5 April, with Slasher & Crasher (Morton).

Sources

Montague Summers. 1931. A Gothic Bibliography. Dalcassian Publishing Company: p. 416, Google E-book[2]

Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852-1866. October - December 1854, [3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Peckett_Prest

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.256

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