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''[[The Rows of Castille]]'' is a burlesque by Conrad Theodore Marriott Edwardes ()[].
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==The original text==
 
 
 
 
 
It was probably a burlesque of ''[[The Rose of Castille]]'' (or ''[[The Rose of Castile]]''), an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe, to an English-language libretto by Augustus Glossop Harris and Edmund Falconer, after the libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Clairville (alias of Louis-François Nicolaïe (1811–1879)) for Adolphe Adam's Le muletier de Tolède (1854). It was premiered on 29 October 1857, at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
 
 
 
The burlesque was originally performed in Brighton, England, on 4 March, 1872.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
A burlesque of Edwardes's play was apparently written for Roebuck under the title ''[[The Rows of Castille]]''.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1875: Performed in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 25 March, and referred to as a "burlesque written expressly for this Co.". It was played as an afterpiece to ''[[David Garrick]]'' (Robertson).
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.
 
 
 
 
 
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press: p.354[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=u9s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA354&lpg=PA354&dq=The+Rows+of+Castille+is+a+play+by+Charles+Edwardes&source=bl&ots=j0c5nqG4pA&sig=ACfU3U0ZdRpw_X5dky9n42fTMyEYVsbuYw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8h9nxvPniAhVVoXEKHR2IATgQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Rows%20of%20Castille%20is%20a%20play%20by%20Charles%20Edwardes&f=false]
 
 
 
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