Ambrose Gwinett, or A Sea Side Story

A Melo-drama, in Three Acts by Douglas Jerrold.

The name is sometimes spelled Ambrose Gwinnett, and in South Africa even Ambrose Guinett.

Published in 1828.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed by the English Amateur Company in the Cape Town Theatre on 13 October, 1838, with as afterpiece The Spectre Bridegroom, or A Ghost in spite of Himself (Moncrieff). The title wrongly given as "Ambrose Guinett, or a Sea-Side Story"

According to Bosman (1928), this was to be the last production mounted in the African Theatre before it was sold and turned into a church, and it was also the last production by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843, for the Methodist anti-theatre movement had temporarily won the battle.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_William_Jerrold

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1694744/Ambrose-Bierces-middle-name

Bosman, 1928: p. 208

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