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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].
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#REDIRECT [[La Fille du Régiment]]
 
 
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 and 26 June,  with the ''[[Day after the Wedding]]'' and  ''[[Princess Pocahontas]]''(Anon).  No author is specified for the musical, but the text in question could be any one of the three English stage plays from the 19th century based on the opera - though [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1980, p.509) suggests it was the Stirling work. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==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.
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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