Monsieur Tonson
A popular farce in two acts by William Thomas (W. T.) Moncrieff (1794-1857), based on Monsieur Tonson: A Tale in Verse (1796) by John Taylor (1757-1832).
Performance history in South Africa
1827: First performed on Monday 27th August in Cape Town's Cape Town Theatre by the Garrison Amateur Company, along with the "operatic interlude" Amoroso (Planché) and Miss in Her Teens (Garrick).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
https://archive.org/details/monsieurtonsonpo00monc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Moncrieff
http://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/items/0810.html
Bosman, 1928: pp.191
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