The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphosed
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A Ballad Farce by Charles Coffey. While it is often attributed to Colley alone, it was co-authored with John Mottley. According to Cumberland's British Theatre (as cited in John Hopkins library catalogue[1]), it was based on Thomas Jevon's The devil of a wife (1686), which was turned into an opera by Charles Coffey and John Mottley, and later reduced to one act" by Theophilus Cibber (Colley Cibber) and called a "comic opera". In 1831 it was printed as two acts.
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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