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My Pretty Maid is an extravaganza by W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)[1].
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No theatrical work by this title is to be found among lists of Gilbert's works. It was either unpublished or is quite possibly an adapted/renamed version of the extravaganza The Pretty Druidess, or The Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough[2], a piece was loosely based on Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 opera Norma, with dialogue in rhyming couplets full of complicated word-play and dreadful puns. First performed at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, on 19 June, 1869.
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Performance history in South Africa
1903: Performed by Edward Terry (1844–1912)[3] and his company as part of a season of plays in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, during April. Terry played "Fanshawe".
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretty_Druidess
http://www.wsgilbert.co.uk/gilbert-s-plays/
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.414
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