The Review, or The Wags of Windsor

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

The play was involved in some controversy, the one character having apparently been based the lead character in Caleb Quotem and his wife by Henry Lee , a play originally acted as Throw physick to the dogs (printed in 1809 under title, Caleb Quotem and his wife), Lee however refused Colman the right to publish the sections containing excerpts from his play. Hence Colman then took up the same material from Dibdin's The mad guardian, or, Sunshine after rain, which Colman claimed was Lee's original."

In the 1808 Cawthorn edition, it says that the Henry Lees source is Dibdin's play[1], while the 1822 edition by Oxberry provides the original material from Lee[2].

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

Published in a variety of editions: As a musical farce in one act by Thomas Hailes Lacy in London, and as a musical farce in two acts by J. Cumberland in London - both in 1800. Later editions, some merly referring to it as "a farce", include ones by D. Longworth, New York, in 1804, by J. Cawthorn in London in 1808, one by W.Oxberry, W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, London in 1822 (with a preface and all stage directions for the Oxberry production of the play) and one by John Cumberland in London in 1826.

4 August, 1848: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players ("the 6th Royal Regiment") in the Garrison Theatre, with as afterpiece The Irishman in London (Macready).

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