The Bonnie Fish Wife
The Bonnie Fish Wife is a musical interlude in one act by Charles Selby (1832-1905)
Also refereed to as a farce in one act, and found under the titles The "Bonnie Fish Wife" or The Bonnie Fishwife.
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The original text
Licenced 17 September 1858 for its first performance at the Strand Theatre on 20 September 1858. Published in Lacy’s (Vol. 37, no.551) as an original musical interlude, songs included in text.
First published in New York by R.M. De Witt in 1858.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2080363A/Charles_Selby
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS, 1852 - 1866. June - September 1858.[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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