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''[[The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough]]'' is a play in two (or three) acts by George Almar (fl. 1830-1840)[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Almar%2C%20George]

==The original text==

First performed at the Surrey Theatre, London, on Wednesday, December 28th, 1832 and published by London, John Dicks, London, in the same year as a play in '''three''' acts. Also published (now as a play in '''two''' acts) by  William Spencer, Boston, in the 1858, and by [[Samuel French]] in 1864.

==The original text==

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1859: The only reference to a 19th century South African performance of ''[[The Misanthrope]]'' in [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980, pp. 124-5) is a reference to a production by [[Charles Fraser]] in the [[Cape Town Theatre]] on 11 July, apparently featuring a play he refers to as ''[[The Misanthrope,  or the Dropping Well of Knavesboro']]'' by an unnamed author. (Bosman suggests it may have been the Ozell version. However this is most likely an error, and the play being referred to is probably ''[[The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough]]'' by George Almar, performed sometime between 1835 and 1840.) Also performed that evening was ''[[My Valet and I]]'' (Wilks). 
== Sources ==

Facsimile version of the Spencer text, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035135840&view=1up&seq=3]

Online Books by George Almar, [[The Online Books Page]][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Almar%2C%20George]

[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205

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