The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphosed
A Ballad Farce by Charles Coffey. (Apparently altered from Thomas Jevon's "The devil of a wife." (1686), by Charles Coffey and John Mottley, but usually given as a work by Coffey.)
Performed at the Theatres Royal.
Later revised by Colley Cibber and called a "comic opera", in two acts. Printed 1831
Selected from Cumberland's British theatre (cited in John Hopkins library catalogue[1]): Based on Thomas Jevon's The devil of a wife (1686), which was turned into an opera by Coffey and Mottley and later reduced by Theophilus Cibber to one act
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Google Books[2]
John Hopkins library catalogue[3]
The Library Company of Philadelphia[4]
Bosman, 1928: pp Go to South African Theatre/Bibliography
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