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1824: Performed by the [[English Theatricals]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town  on 10 April with ''[[Love à-la-Mode]]'' (Macklin) as afterpiece.
 
1824: Performed by the [[English Theatricals]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town  on 10 April with ''[[Love à-la-Mode]]'' (Macklin) as afterpiece.
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1848: Performed by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Theatrical Company]] on 26 September , with [[Fortune's Frolic, or The Ploughman Turned Lord]] (Allingham)
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 07:20, 22 May 2015

A melodrama by Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841), with music by James Hook (Snr 1746-1827). Adapted from the French straight play Tékéli, ou, Le siége de Montgatz by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.

First performed in English at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane in 1806 and published in London by C. and R. Baldwin, 1806 and in New York by D. Longworth, at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1807.

Performance history in South Africa

1824: Performed by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 April with Love à-la-Mode (Macklin) as afterpiece.

1848: Performed by the Garrison Theatrical Company on 26 September , with Fortune's Frolic, or The Ploughman Turned Lord (Allingham)

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/22251640?op=t&n=35&s=2

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20660621?selectedversion=NBD8291418

Bosman, 1928: pp. 198

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