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[[The miller's maid]]'' is a melodrama in two acts by John Faucit Saville (1807-1855).
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[[The Miller's Maid]]'' is a melodrama in two acts by John Faucit Saville (1807-1855).
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
  
Founded on a poem by Robert Bloomfield's that name,
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Founded on a like-named poem by Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823), with the songs principally selected from his works as well, it was first performed at the Theatre Royal, English Opera House, London, in 1821, and printed for the author by Longman ''et al'' in the same year. , 1821.
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
 
  
First performed at the English Opera, London, 1821, . Published Longman [etc.], 1821; Baltimore 1822 and New York, S. French [185-?]
 
  
The miller's maid : a melo-drama in two acts : founded on Bloomfield's poem of that name, and the songs principally selected from his works. Performing at the Theatre Royal, English Opera House
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
 
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009604055
 
 
Saville, J. Faucit. (1821). The miller's maid: a melo-drama in two acts. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Longman [etc.]. Facsimile version, Hathi Trust Digital Library[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwpkgw;view=1up;seq=7]
 
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1980. "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.)
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https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009604055
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II: 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 46, 48, 50, 434, 441-4, 447, 449-51, 461.
 
  
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 57, 253, 442, 463, 492, 511
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Saville, J. Faucit. (1821). The Miller's Maid: A Melo-drama in Two Acts. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Longman [etc.]. Facsimile version, Hathi Trust Digital Library[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwpkgw;view=1up;seq=7]
  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 224
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.
 
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 09:25, 25 June 2016

The Miller's Maid is a melodrama in two acts by John Faucit Saville (1807-1855).

The original text

Founded on a like-named poem by Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823), with the songs principally selected from his works as well, it was first performed at the Theatre Royal, English Opera House, London, in 1821, and printed for the author by Longman et al in the same year. , 1821.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009604055

Saville, J. Faucit. (1821). The Miller's Maid: A Melo-drama in Two Acts. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Longman [etc.]. Facsimile version, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 224

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