Kenilworth Castle, or The Days of Queen Bess

Kenilworth Castle, or The Days of Queen Bess is a play in three acts by James Robinson Planché,

The original text

Based on Kenilworth. A Romance, the historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published on 8 January 1821, it was one of a number of adaptations done over the years under a variety of tiles. It was dramatized by Planché and first performed at the Adelphi Theatre on 9 February, 1821.

Kenilworth, or The Golden Days of Queen Bess.Published in London by Hodgson, 1823

A four act drama entitled Kenilworth. A Romance was performed in Edinburgh in 1822, and published there by James L. Huie in 1823.

Kenilworth: Or, The golden days of Queen Bess

Performance history in South Africa

1832: Performed in South Africa as Kenilworth, or The Days of Queen Bess ("a drama in four acts") for the first time on 11 August by the All the World's a Stage in the African Theatre, with as afterpiece Catherine and Petruchio, or The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare).

Sources

http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2205

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenilworth_(novel)

https://clio.columbia.edu//catalog/6204933

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp.

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