The Bonnie Fish Wife

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The Bonnie Fish Wife is a musical interlude in one act by Charles Selby (c. 1802 – 1863)[1]

Also referred to as a farce in one act, and found under the titles The "Bonnie Fish Wife" or The Bonnie Fishwife.

The original text

Licenced 17 September 1858 for its first performance at the Strand Theatre on 20 September 1858. Published in Lacy’s (Vol. 37, no.551) as an original musical interlude, songs included in text.

First published in New York by R.M. De Witt in 1858.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1861: Performed as The Bonnie Fishwife on 1 August by the , with The Rivals (Sheridan) and a dance by Lizzie Powell.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Selby

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2080363A/Charles_Selby

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS, 1852 - 1866. June - September 1858.[2]

http://www.worldcat.org/title/bonnie-fish-wife-a-farce-in-one-act/oclc/31573527/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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