The Mogul Tale, or The Descent of the Balloon
A farce in two acts by Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
Contents
The original text
Satirising the scientific pretensions through a tale of a couple from Wapping, England, who go ballooning, get blown off course and land on the Seraglio of the Mogul in Constantinople
First performed at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley, Dublin and published 1788
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1828: Produced in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the English Theatrical Amateur Company on 9 May, as a benefit for Mrs Black, with an interlude called Reformation and Trick for Trick, or The Admiral's Daughter (Anonymous).
Sources
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004878383.0001.000/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Barbara M. Benedict. Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2002):pp. 223-5 - Google eBook[1]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 201,
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