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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.
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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.  
 
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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.
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See ''[[Tékéli, ou Le siége de Montgatz]]'''''  
 
 
== 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 in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Theatrical Company]] on 26 September , with the farce ''[[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
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 198, 397
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]
 
  
 
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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. See Tékéli, ou Le siége de Montgatz

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