My Pretty Maid

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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 It was either unpublished or is quite possibly an adapted/renamed version of the extravaganza The Pretty Druidess, or The Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough[2], a piece was loosely based on Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 opera Norma, with dialogue in rhyming couplets full of complicated word-play and dreadful puns. First performed at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, on 19 June, 1869.

Edward Terry as Fanshawe in 'My Pretty Maid'. Terry's Theatre, The Strand, London, premiered 1902.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed by Edward Terry (1844–1912)[3] and his company as part of a season of plays in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, during April. Terry played "Fanshawe".

Sources

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/edward-terry-as-fanshawe-in-my-pretty-maid-terry-s-theatre-news-photo/171088136

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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