The Royal Quixote

The Royal Quixote is a three-act drama "arranged by members of the Dramatic Club of the Regiment"

The original text

The play was based on a short tale by Susanna Moodie, apparently written in 1824 and first published in the Literary Garland of 1838. John Thurston, editor of Mrs Moodie's short stories, calls it a "long and rather tedious story about King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden".

"Mrs Moodie's beautiful tale, the three-act drama, The Royal Quixote, an original drama arranged by members of the Dramatic Club of the Regiment

Sources

Facsimile version of the first 3 chapters of the original story, as published in The Literary Garland Volume 1, No. 1 pp. 321-330[1]

John Thurston. 1991. "Introduction" to Voyages: Short Narratives of Susanna Moodie. University of Ottawa Press: p.xvii[2]