The Amorous Widow, or The Wanton Wife

The Amorous Widow, or The Wanton Wife is a comedy by is a farce in two acts by Thomas Betterton (1635?-1710)[].

The original text

It is an English adaptation of Moliere's George Dandin.

First performed under this title by Her Majesty's servants and published in London, 1710.

Performance history in South Africa

1817: Performed as Barnaby Brittle in the "The African Theatre" on 5 July by the Garrison Players, as afterpiece to The Merchant of Venice, with Captain Carter as "Shylock".

Sources

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004861680.0001.000?view=toc

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8772410

Charles Gildon. 1710. The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider'd. Robert Gosling, 1710 (Contains the 1710 text of The Amorous Widow)[1]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 150,

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