The Golden Farmer, or The Last Crime

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The Golden Farmer, or The Last Crime is a domestic drama, in two acts by Benjamin Webster (1797-1882)[1]

Often simply referred to as The Golden Farmer.

The original text

First acted at the Coburg Theatre, London on 26 December, 1832, and printed in Cumberland's Minor Theatre, vol. vi.

In America published as The Golden Farmer, or Vell, vot ov it? (Turner & Fisher, Philadelphia,1836); or, Vell, vot ov it?; The Golden Farmer (New York, Berford & co., 1847) and The Golden Farmer, or Jemmy Twitcher in England (Samuel French, New York, 186?).



Sources

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

Facsimile of the 1836 text[2]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Davis,_William_(1627-1690)_(DNB00)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp.

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