The Royal Quixote

The Royal Quixote is a three-act drama "arranged by members of the Dramatic Club" of the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot.

The original text

The play was based on a short tale by Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)[1], apparently written in 1824 and first published in the Literary Garland of 1838. John Thurston, editor of Mrs Moodie's short stories, calls it a "long and rather tedious story about King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden".

A three-act dramatised version of the tale was apparently undertaken and "arranged" by members of the Dramatic Club of the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot in Keiskama Hoek in 1862.

Sources

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

Facsimile version of the first 3 chapters of the original story, as published in The Literary Garland Volume 1, No. 1 pp. 321-330[2]

John Thurston. 1991. "Introduction" to Voyages: Short Narratives of Susanna Moodie. University of Ottawa Press: p.xvii[3]