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| − | A Ballad Farce by Charles Coffey. | + | A Ballad Farce by Charles Coffey. While it is often attributed to Colley alone, it was co-authored with John Mottley. According to Cumberland's British Theatre (as cited in John Hopkins library catalogue[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_395134]), it was based on Thomas Jevon's ''The devil of a wife'' (1686), which was turned into an opera by Charles Coffey and John Mottley, and later reduced to one act" by Theophilus Cibber (Colley Cibber) and called a "comic opera". In 1831 it was printed as two acts. |
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 06:24, 26 August 2013
A Ballad Farce by Charles Coffey. While it is often attributed to Colley alone, it was co-authored with John Mottley. According to Cumberland's British Theatre (as cited in John Hopkins library catalogue[1]), it was based on Thomas Jevon's The devil of a wife (1686), which was turned into an opera by Charles Coffey and John Mottley, and later reduced to one act" by Theophilus Cibber (Colley Cibber) and called a "comic opera". In 1831 it was printed as two acts.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Google Books[2]
John Hopkins library catalogue[3]
The Library Company of Philadelphia[4]
Bosman, 1928: pp Go to South African Theatre/Bibliography
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