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''[[Madeleine, or The Daughter of the Regiment]]'' is a play by Edward Stirling (1809-1894)[http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html].
 
 
Also referred to simply as  '''''[[The Daughter of the Regiment]]''''' at times.
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
This is clearly one of a number of works based (directly or indirectly) on ''[[La fille du régiment]]'', the  1840 opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Donizetti]. (''See the entry on [[The Daughter of the Regiment]]''.)
 
 
''[[Het Volksblad]]'''s anonymous reviewer of the 1862 Cape Town performances, for example, refers to the play as ''[[La fille du régiment]]'' and laments the lack of Donizetti's music in the performance. (''[[Het Volksblad]]'', 19 June 1862)
 
 
Possibly written circa 1860.
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1862: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Clara Tellett]] and her company on 16th June, with ''[[Hunting a Turtle, or Trust a Woman's Wit]]'' (Selby ). Tellet (or the Cape press at the time) refers to the author as "E. Sterling". The cast included  [[Clara Tellett|Tellett]] herself, [[James Leffler]], [[T. Brazier]], [[Mr Raymond]] and [[Mrs Arlington]]
 
 
1862: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Clara Tellett]] and her company on 23rd June, with ''[[My American Cousin, or A Slight Misunderstanding]]'' ("A Gentleman of Cape Town").
 
 
1875: A "musical comedietta" called ''[[The Daughter of the Regiment]]'' was performed on 23 June, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, and repeated twice in the same season (on the 26th June and 9th September). As no author is given for these  first performances of the play by [[Disney Roebuck|Roebuck]], the text in question could really have been any one of the three English stage plays from the 19th century based on the opera. [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1980, p.509) confuses the matter further by suggesting that it was the text by Fitzball, but at the same time referring the reader to the Stirling text called ''[[Madeleine, or The Daughter of the Regiment]]''. In his later productions from 1878, however, Roebuck did credit Fitzball and Donizetti specifically - which seems to suggest that he used Fitzball's version of the French comic opera for all his productions, rather than Stirling's. '''(For details of the Roebuck productions of Fitzball's play, go to the entry on ''[[The Daughter of the Regiment (Fitzball)]]''.)'''
 
 
==Sources==
 
 
http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 130-1, 134-5.
 
 
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