The Review, or The Wags of Windsor

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A musical farce in one act and/or in two acts (depending on the edition) by George Colman (Jr) 1762-1836.


The play apparently based in part on Caleb Quotem and his wife by Henry Lee (Longworth edition, 1804[1]), a play originally acted as Throw physick to the dogs (printed in 1809 under title, Caleb Quotem and his wife)

In the 1808 Cawthorn edition, it says that the Henry Lees source is "is here replaced by matter from Dibdin's The mad guardian, or, Sunshine after rain, which Colman claims was Lee's original." (1808 Cawthorn edition in London[2] . )


First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, September 2nd, 1800.


Published as by J. Cumberland in London in 1800, and as a musical farce in one act by Thomas Hailes Lacy in London. Latereditions include one by D. Longworth, New York, in 1804, 1808 by J. Cawthorn in London and in 1822 by W.Oxberry, W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, London, with a preface and all stage directions for the Oxberry production of the play; 1826 by John Cumberland in London.

https://archive.org/details/revieworwagsofwi00colmuoft https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17809798M/The_review_or_The_wags_of_Windsor