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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretty_Druidess
  
 
http://www.wsgilbert.co.uk/gilbert-s-plays/
 
http://www.wsgilbert.co.uk/gilbert-s-plays/

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My Pretty Maid is an extravaganza by W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)[1].

The original text

No theatrical work by this title is to be found among lists of Gilbert's works. It is possibly a version of the extravaganza The Pretty Druidess, or The Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough first performed at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, on 19 June, 1869.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed by Edward Terry and his company as part of a season of plays in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, during April.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretty_Druidess

http://www.wsgilbert.co.uk/gilbert-s-plays/

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.414

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