Ivanhoe, or The Jewess of York

Ivanhoe, or The Jewess of York is called a "Chivalric Play in Three Acts" and is by William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)[1] and Walter Scott, with music by Hughes.

Also found listed as Ivanhoe, or The Jewess.

The original text

Based on the popular novel Ivanhoe[2] by Sir Walter Scott[3], this stage adaptation was first produced on 24 January 1820 at the Coburg Theatre, London, and published in the same year.

It was one of several plays that were quickly created shortly after the publication of Scott's popular novel in 1819. Moncrieff's play appears under a number of names in various publications, including:

Ivanhoe! or, The Jewess; Ivanhoe; or, The Jewess; Ivanhoe, or, The Jew of York, Ivanhoe, or The Jewess of York (the title under which it first appeared in South Africa) and possibly simply The Jewess (the title cited as a play performed by Nance O'Neill in Cape Town in 1901-2. However this may have been an English version of The Jewess of Toledo[4] (1851)

Performance history in South Africa

1824: Produced on 17 June by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town as Ivanhoe, or The Jewess of York , with Who's the Dupe? (Cowley) as afterpiece.

Sources

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Moncrieff

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp. 199

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