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Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. ''History of English Drama, 1660-1900'', Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: pp.99, 623, 662[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=CHa3njx5AzYC&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=The+Miller+of+Whetstone,+or+The+Cross-bow+Letter&source=bl&ots=d79vqxTjsb&sig=GKt-OZh8h8N8C-G6Ovz3YMWrSww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDgrHQgKbfAhVOThUIHX5bBgoQ6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Miller%20of%20Whetstone%2C%20or%20The%20Cross-bow%20Letter&f=false] | Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. ''History of English Drama, 1660-1900'', Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: pp.99, 623, 662[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=CHa3njx5AzYC&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=The+Miller+of+Whetstone,+or+The+Cross-bow+Letter&source=bl&ots=d79vqxTjsb&sig=GKt-OZh8h8N8C-G6Ovz3YMWrSww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDgrHQgKbfAhVOThUIHX5bBgoQ6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Miller%20of%20Whetstone%2C%20or%20The%20Cross-bow%20Letter&f=false] |
Revision as of 07:07, 17 December 2018
The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross-bow Letter is a an original comic burletta in one act by Thomas Egerton Wilks (1812-1854)[]
Also found as The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross Bow Letter and The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross-Bow Letter
Contents
The original text
Performed in the Princess Theatre , Leeds, 14 November and 7 December, 1853, as an afterpiece to Hamlet. (Billed as: 'The Miller of Whetstone' (or, 'The Cross Bow Letter')
Performed in the New Strand Theatre, London, on 1 August 1857
Translations and adaptations
Performances in South Africa
1861: Performed in Cape Town by the Juvenile Amateurs, assisted by Annie Rowlands, with The Queer Subject (Coyne) and Chesterfield Thinskin (Maddox)
Sources
Leeds Play Bills, [1]
Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: pp.99, 623, 662[2]
The Victorian Plays Project, Volume 7[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 165,
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