The Warlock of the Glen

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The Warlock of the Glen is a melodrama in two acts by Charles Edward Walker (fl. 1820s).

The original text

It appears to have been a popular melodrama and one of the works that launched the interest in Gothic literature.

First performed in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 2 October, 1820.

Published in London J. Duncombe & Co., 1820(?); Samuel French in 1850 and W. V. Spencer in 1855(?) (as no CXIV of Spencer's Boston Theatre).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Volume 46 of The Victorian Plays Project[1]

Facsimile version of the 1855(?) edition by Spencer, HathiTrust Digital Library[2]


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F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp.

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