Doctor Bolus
Doctor Bolus is "a Serio-Comick-Bombastick-Operatick Interlude", written by George Daniel (1789-1864)[1].
(The play's title is often written Dr Bolus.)
Contents
The original text
First performed in London at the Theatre Royal (the English Opera House, afterwards the Lyceum) on Tuesday, July 21, 1818, it published soon after the performance in 1818 by W. and J. Lowndes, going into two editions.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1830: Performed in the Cape Town Theatre, South Africa by All the World's a Stage on 4 September as afterpiece to George Barnwell, or The London Apprentice (Lillo).
Sources
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL20384505M/Doctor_Bolus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniel_(writer)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Daniel,_George_(1789-1864)_(DNB00)
Frederick Wilse Bateson. 1940. The Cambridge Bibliography of English literature. Vol. 2. (1660 - 1800)[2 https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Uak8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA666&lpg=PA666&dq=Dr+Bolus+a+play+by+George+Daniel&source=bl&ots=A2VY6jz7LD&sig=k7CDG410TzUL8tonD1drLIRHPNU&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA3sCi4OfMAhXMCcAKHRRZBAIQ6AEIGTAA#v=onepage&q=Dr%20Bolus%20a%20play%20by%20George%20Daniel&f=false]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 215
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