The Smoked Miser, or The Benefit of Hanging
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A comic dramatic sketch (or farce) in one act by Douglas Jerrold.
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The original text
Tells about a miser tries to marry off his ward to advantage. First performed at Sadlers Wells on 23 June, 1823 and published in London by J. Duncombe, [183-?]
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1830: Played on 7 August by the All the World's a Stage in the African Theatre, with as afterpiece to The Flying Dutchman, or the Phantom Ship (Fitzball).
Sources
http://netlibrary.net/articles/miser F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 214, Go to ESAT Bibliography
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