The Miller's Maid

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

The original text

Founded on a poem by Robert Bloomfield's that name, 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

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]

Performance history in South Africa

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 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. 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. [2]: pp. 57, 253, 442, 463, 492, 511

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp.

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