Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!
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Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands! burlesque by Henry J. Byron (1835-1884)
This is one of two works by Byron, both based on Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
(The other is a pantomime called Robinson Crusoe, or Friday and the Fairies, 1868)
Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands! is described as a "grotesque pantomime opening", invented and written by Henry James Byron". Also referred to as a burlesque in the Samuel French edition.
First performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre on the 26th of December, 1860, and published by Samuel French
Facsimile version of the S. French edition of 1860, Hathi Thrust Digital Library[1]
