The Sleeping Draught

An English farce in two acts by Samson Penley, based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio. The first edition announces it as follows: "As Performed with distinguished Applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. By S.Penley, Comedian. , London: Richard White, 1818."

Performance history in South Africa

Performed by the group called the English Theatricals in Cape Town on 20 September 1823, as afterpiece to Douglas (Home).

Performed by All the World's a Stage in Cape Town on 30 January, 1832, along with The Iron Chest, or The Blood-Stained Knife (Colman) and The Lawyer in the Sack, or Jack's Return!!! (a ballet).

Performed by All the World's a Stage in Cape Town on 30 January, 1832, (with the alternative title of A Calf to be Killed!!!), as afterpiece to Bertram, or The Castle of St. Aldobrand (Maturin).

Sources

First edition frontispiece, sourced from UKBookWorld.com [1]

Bosman, 1928: pp 197, 222, 225

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