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1862: Performed as  ''[[The Maid of the Mill]]''  by [[Clara Tellett]] and her company  in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 2 August,  with  ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' (Scribé/Payne) and  ''[[A Perfect Cure]]'' (Sapte). ([[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980, p. 131 - seemingly unaware of the existence of this text - suggests it may have been a version of either ''[[The Miller's Maid]]'' by Saville or ''[[The Maid and The Mail]]'' by Bickerstaffe)
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1862: Performed as  ''[[The Maid of the Mill]]''  by [[Clara Tellett]] and her company  in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 2 August,  with  ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' (Scribé/Payne) and  ''[[A Perfect Cure]]'' (Sapte). ([[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980, p. 131 - seemingly unaware of the existence of this text - suggests it may have been a version of either ''[[The Miller's Maid]]'' by Saville or a comic opera he cites as ''[[The Maid and The Mail]]'' by Bickerstaffe.)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:06, 6 August 2020

The Maid of the Mill is a comic opera by Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733-1808)[1]

The original text

Written and performed in 1765 as The Maide of the Mill, with music by Samuel Arnold and others.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: Performed as The Maid of the Mill by Clara Tellett and her company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 2 August, with Love in Humble Life (Scribé/Payne) and A Perfect Cure (Sapte). (F.C.L. Bosman, 1980, p. 131 - seemingly unaware of the existence of this text - suggests it may have been a version of either The Miller's Maid by Saville or a comic opera he cites as The Maid and The Mail by Bickerstaffe.)

Sources

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 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.131,

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