The Daughter of the Regiment (Fitzball)
The Daughter of the Regiment is a drama in two acts by Edward Fitzball (1792-1873)[].
See also the entries on La Fille du Régiment (Donizetti), Madeleine, or The Daughter of the Regiment (Stirling) and Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War (Buckstone), which are all also referred to as The Daughter of the Regiment on occasion.
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The original text
Based on La Fille du Régiment[1] (La Figlia del Reggimento in the Italian version), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), with a French libretto by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Jean François Alfred Bayard (first performed in French on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse).
Fitzball's play was first performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, in May 28th 1844. Published by J. Dicks in the series Dicks' standard plays (no. 761) in 1883(?)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035136228&view=1up&seq=3
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