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| − | + | ''[[Rob Roy Macgregor; or, Auld Lang Syne!]]'' is a musical play by Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock], with music by John Davy (1763-1824)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Davy,_John_(1763-1824)_(DNB00)]. | |
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Rob Roy Macgregor; or, Auld Lang Syne! is a musical play by Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[1], with music by John Davy (1763-1824)[2].
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
A play called Rob Roy MacGregor Campbell, said to be based on Scott's novel, was performed a number of times in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the amateur company English Theatricals in the years 1823-24. It is most likely that this was the widely known and published Pocock musical version, but it may have been the Henry Murray version, entitled Rob Roy Macgregor, which had been devised in association with Scott and was performed in Edinburgh in 1818.
1823: A play called Rob Roy MacGregor Campbell 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 and Davy musical version of 1818, though it may have been the operatic version by Henry Murray, also performed in 1818, and had been devised in association with Scott.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Facsimile version of the London published text of 1818, Google eBook[3]
Facsimile version of the New York published text of 1818, Google eBook[4]
Frederick Burwick. Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan, 08 Nov 2011 )[5]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 73-77, 142, 198.
Fletcher, 1994 p. 40
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