Kenilworth. A Romance
Kenilworth Castle, or The Days of Queen Bess is a play in three acts by James Robinson Planché,
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The original text
Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, Kenilworth. A Romance, was first published in three volumes on 8 January 1821, and has been adapted and dramatized a number of times by various authors over the years, appearing under a variety of titles.
Among them:
Kenilworth Castle, or The Days of Queen Bess, a three act version by James Robinson Planché, appears to have been first, for it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre on 9 February, 1821.
In 1822 followed a four act drama entitled Kenilworth, A Historical Drama by an anonymous dramatist (possibly even Scott himself, who had dabbled in dramatisation before), which was performed in Edinburgh in 1822, and published there by James L. Huie in 1823.
Kenilworth, or The Golden Days of Queen Bess Published in London by Hodgson, 1823
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1832: Performed in South Africa as Kenilworth, or The Days of Queen Bess ("a drama in four acts") for the first time on 11 August by the All the World's a Stage in the African Theatre, with as afterpiece Catherine and Petruchio, or The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare).
Sources
http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2205
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenilworth_(novel)
https://clio.columbia.edu//catalog/6204933
Facsimile version of the 1823 text of Kenilworth, A Historical Drama, Google E-book[1]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.
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