Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz

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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.

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

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

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.

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