The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough

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The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough is a play in two acts by George Almar ()[]

The original text

First performed at the Surrey Theatre, London, on Wednesday, December 28th, 1832 and published by London, John Dicks, London, in the same year. Also published by William Spencer, Boston, in the 1850s, and by Samuel French in 1864.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

Facsimile version of the Spencer text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]


D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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