The Adopted Child
The Adopted Child is a musical drama in two acts by Samuel Birch (1757-1841)[1], with music composed by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)[2].
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and published by C. Dilly, London, in 1795
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1817: Presented in Cape Town on 20 September by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to The Mountaineers (Colman Jr).
Sources
Facsimile copy of the 1795 text, Google E-Book[3]
Facsimile copy of the text, Spencer’s Boston Theatre No C (1825): Hathitrust Digital Library[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Birch_(Lord_Mayor_of_London)]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Attwood_(composer)]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp.150,
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