The Rose of Arragon
A verse play in five acts by James Sheridan Knowles (1784 - 1862)
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 4 June, 1842. Published by Edward Moxon in 1842.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1850 Performed by the Garrison Players|Garrison Amateur Players on 31 July , with The Practical Man (Bernard). Repeated on 9 August with Shocking Events (Hall/Buckstone?) as afterpiece.
Sources
Facsimile of the 1842 edition, The Internet Archive[1]
The Athenaeum No 763, Saturday, 11 June 1842[2]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 399,
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