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| − | A farce in two acts by Thomas Knight (died 1820).
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| − | (Sometimes referred to simply as “Honest Thieves”)
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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | A two-act abridgment of ''[[The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman]]'' (Also simply referred to as ''[[The Committee]]'') , a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), which had probably first been performed in London in 1662, and printed 1665.
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| − | First performed as ''[[The Honest Thieves]]'' in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 9 May 1797
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| − | Printed in London for and under the direction of G. Cawthorn, 1797.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1843: Performed in the [[Hope Street Theatre|Amateur Theatre]] in Hope Street by [[All the World's a Stage]], as afterpiece to ''[[Wenlock of Wenlock, or The Spirit of the Black Mantle]]'' (Wilks)
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| − | 1846: performed on 2 January 1846 by the amateurs of the [[Garrison Theatre|45th Regiment]] in the barracks at Fort Napier, as afterpiece to ''[[Zorinski]]'' by Thomas Morton.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Knight,_Thomas_(d.1820)_(DNB00)
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| − | Facsimile version of the 1797 text, Google eBooks[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Zd1ZAAAAcAAJ&dq=Honest+Thieves+by+Knight&source=gbs_navlinks_s]
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| − | https://archive.org/details/sirroberthowards00howarich
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| − | http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honest_Thieves.html?id=TQ9OnQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
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| − | http://www.worldcat.org/title/honest-thieves-a-farce-in-two-acts-altered-from-the-committee-by-t-knight-first-acted-at-the-theatre-royal-covent-garden-may-9-1797/oclc/316658917
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| − | http://archive.org/stream/sirroberthowards00howarich/sirroberthowards00howarich_djvu.txt
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 413, 510.
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| − | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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