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(Sometimes referred to simply as ''[[Honest Thieves]]'')  
 
(Sometimes referred to simply as ''[[Honest Thieves]]'')  
  
== The original text ==
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''' For details of performances and publication see ''[[The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman]]'''''
 
 
An abridgment of ''[[The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman]]'',  a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), (Also simply referred to as ''[[The Committee]]'') ,  which had probably first been performed in London in 1662, and printed 1665.
 
 
 
First performed as ''[[The Honest Thieves]]'' in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 9 May 1797
 
 
 
Printed in London for and under the direction of G. Cawthorn, 1797.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
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)
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Knight,_Thomas_(d.1820)_(DNB00)
 
 
 
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]
 
 
 
https://archive.org/details/sirroberthowards00howarich
 
 
 
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honest_Thieves.html?id=TQ9OnQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
http://archive.org/stream/sirroberthowards00howarich/sirroberthowards00howarich_djvu.txt
 
 
 
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Wenlock_of_Wenlock.html?id=8QrKQAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 413, 510.
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
  
 
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Revision as of 17:39, 28 June 2015

A farce in two acts by Thomas Knight (died 1820), an abridgment of The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman, a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), .

(Sometimes referred to simply as Honest Thieves)

For details of performances and publication see The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman

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