The Happy Man
The Happy Man is a extravaganza in one act by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)[1]
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The original text
Described as "an extravaganza in one act" and performed in the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1839 and The National Theatre, Boston 1846.
Published in J. Dicks Standard Plays (1883) and W. V. Spencer, Boston in Spencer's Boston Theatre XLIII (18**).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Lover
Frederick Wilse Bateson (ed). 1969The Cambridge Bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660-1800, Volume 3. CUP Archive: p. 407[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 78
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