The Miller and his Men
A popular English romantic melodrama , in two acts by Isaac Pocock (also printed J.Pocock on some editions and by Bosman (1928). With music by Henry R. Bishop, it was printed in London in 1813, later printed in New York by David Longworth, 1818. It was still playing in London in 1835, and there are records of performances by the Garrison theatre companies in Canada and South Africa.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 5 September 1818, as afterpiece to The Birth Day (O'Keefe), and again on 26 September (alongside Pixerecourt's The Wandering Boys)
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp 155,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock
http://garrisontheatricals.com/category/history/
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