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| − | 1823: A play called Rob Roy and credited to Scott, was performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the amateur company [[English Theatricals]] on 20 December, with ''[[All the World's a Stage]]'' (Jackman). It is most likely that this was the widely known Pocock version. | + | 1823: A play called ''[[Rob Roy]]'' and credited to Scott, was performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the amateur company [[English Theatricals]] on 20 December, with ''[[All the World's a Stage]]'' (Jackman). It is most likely that this was the widely known and published Pocock version (though it may have been the 1818 play ''[[Rob Roy]]'' by Murray). |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 08:51, 27 April 2015
A play by Isaac Pocock, based on the famous novel of Sir Walter Scott.
See also Rob Roy
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The original text
Adapted from the novel Rob Roy (1817) by Sir Walter Scott , the play was the most successful of many based on the Scott novel. First performed on March 12, 1818 at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden , and published in London by John Miller in 1818; in New York by D. Longworth, 1818.
Performance history in South Africa
1823: A play called Rob Roy and credited to Scott, was performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the amateur company English Theatricals on 20 December, with All the World's a Stage (Jackman). It is most likely that this was the widely known and published Pocock version (though it may have been the 1818 play Rob Roy by Murray).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Facsimile version of the London published text of 1818, Google eBook[1]
Facsimile version of the New York published text of 1818, Google eBook[2]
Frederick Burwick. Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan, 08 Nov 2011 )[3]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 73-77, 142, 198.
Fletcher, 1994 p. 40
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