Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne
by Isaac Pocock (1782 – 1835)
On 12 March 1818 his "Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne",[8] an operatic drama in three acts, was first played at Covent Garden. William Charles Macready took the title role; John Liston played Baillie Nicol Jarvie, and Miss Stephens Di Vernon. It was acted thirty-four times. It was played at Bath, for Farren's benefit, on 15 April 1815, when James Prescott Warde was very successful as Rob Roy. In the revival of the following year Farren took Liston's place as the Baillie. This play and Pocock's "John of Paris" were given together at Bath on the occasion of Warde's farewell to the stage, on 5 June 1820. James William Wallack played in "Rob Roy" at Drury Lane in January 1826; and Madame Vestris impersonated Di Vernon at the Haymarket in October 1824. The play was published in 1818.
