Raising the Wind

A farce in two acts by James Kenney (1780-1849). A play which terlls of the efforts of one Jeremy Diddler to live by means of petty swindles.

First produced in London on His first play, it was first performed on Novemeber 5, 1803, and became extremely popular. First published in 1893, and in New York in 1804. Published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme in 1815.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kenney_(dramatist)

https://archive.org/details/raisingwindfarce00kenn

Bosman, 1928: pp. 222-3,

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