The Happy Man
The Happy Man is a extravaganza in one act by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)[1]
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Described as "an extravaganza in one act" and performed in the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1839 and The National Theatre, Boston 1846.
Published in J. Dicks Standard Plays (1883) and W. V. Spencer, Boston in Spencer's Boston Theatre XLIII (18**).
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Performance history in South Africa
1859: It was performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Harrington Street Theatre on 5 December. Billed as a one act burlesque acts, with a Spanish dance as interlude and Agnes de Vere, or A Wife’s Revenge (Buckstone), it is strangely listed by Bosman (1980, pp.78 and 514) as The Happy Man, or the Legend of the -. (This may possibly refer to an alternative title, such as "The Legend of the Happy Man"?)
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Lover
Frederick Wilse Bateson (ed). 1969The Cambridge Bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660-1800, Volume 3. CUP Archive: p. 407[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 78
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