The Honest Thieves

A farce in two acts. Altered from Sir Robert Howard's The Committee (1665) by Thomas Knight (died 1820).

First acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden May 9, 1797. Printed in London for and under the direction of G. Cawthorn, 1797.

Performance history in South Africa

1846: performed on 2 January 1846 by the amateurs of the 45th Regiment in the barracks at Fort Napier, as afterpiece to Zorinski by Thomas Morton.

Sources

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honest_Thieves.html?id=TQ9OnQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

http://www.worldcat.org/title/honest-thieves-a-farce-in-two-acts-altered-from-the-committee-by-t-knight-first-acted-at-the-theatre-royal-covent-garden-may-9-1797/oclc/316658917

http://archive.org/stream/sirroberthowards00howarich/sirroberthowards00howarich_djvu.txt

Bosman, 1928: p. 511.

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