Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz
A melodrama by Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841), with music by James Hook (Snr 1746-1827). Adapted from the French straight play Tékéli, ou, Le siége de Montgatz by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.
First performed in English at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane in 1806 and published in London by C. and R. Baldwin, 1806 and in New York by D. Longworth, at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1807.
Performance history in South Africa
1824: Performed by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 April with Love à-la-Mode (Macklin) as afterpiece.
1848: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Theatrical Company on 26 September , with the farce Fortune's Frolic, or The Ploughman Turned Lord (Allingham)
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/22251640?op=t&n=35&s=2
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20660621?selectedversion=NBD8291418
Bosman, 1928: pp. 198, 397
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