The Honest Thieves
A farce in two acts by Thomas Knight (died 1820).
(Sometimes referred to simply as “Honest Thieves”)
Contents
The original text
A two-act abridgment of The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman (Also simply referred to as The Committee) , a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), which had probably first been performed in London in 1662, and printed 1665.
First performed as The Honest Thieves in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 9 May 1797
Printed in London for and under the direction of G. Cawthorn, 1797.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1843: Performed in the Amateur Theatre in Hope Street by All the World’s a Stage, as afterpiece to Wenlock of Wenlock, or The Spirit of the Black Mantle
1846: performed on 2 January 1846 by the amateurs of the 45th Regiment in the barracks at Fort Napier, as afterpiece to Zorinski by Thomas Morton.
Sources
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Knight,_Thomas_(d.1820)_(DNB00)
Facsimile version of the 1797 text, Google eBooks[1]
https://archive.org/details/sirroberthowards00howarich
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honest_Thieves.html?id=TQ9OnQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://archive.org/stream/sirroberthowards00howarich/sirroberthowards00howarich_djvu.txt
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 413, 510.
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