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''[[The Sleeping Draught]]'' is an English farce in two acts by Samson Penley (1792–1838).  
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''[[The Sleeping Draught]]'' is an English farce in two acts by S. Penley (Samson, or Sampson, Penley, 1792–1838).  
  
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White and T. Searle in the same year.
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Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White and T. Searle in 1818 and Baltimore by J. Robinson, in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=128
 
http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=128
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http://www.worldcat.org/title/sleeping-draught-a-farce-in-two-acts/oclc/26228337
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.197, 222, 225  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.197, 222, 225  

Revision as of 05:28, 19 November 2016

The Sleeping Draught is an English farce in two acts by S. Penley (Samson, or Sampson, Penley, 1792–1838).


The original text

Based on a story by Giovanni Boccaccio, it was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane on 1 April 1818, and published in London by Richard White and T. Searle in 1818 and Baltimore by J. Robinson, in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1832: Performed by the group called the English Theatricals in Cape Town on 20 September 1823, as afterpiece to Douglas (Home).

1832: Performed by All the World's a Stage in Cape Town on 30 January, along with The Iron Chest, or The Blood-Stained Knife (Colman) and The Lawyer in the Sack, or Jack's Return!!! (a "ballet with dancing").

1833: Performed as The Sleeping Draught, or A Calf to be Killed!!! by All the World's a Stage in Cape Town on 30 March, as afterpiece to Bertram, or The Castle of St. Aldobrand (Maturin).


Sources

Facsimile version of the 1818 edition, Google E-book[1]

http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=128

http://www.worldcat.org/title/sleeping-draught-a-farce-in-two-acts/oclc/26228337

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.197, 222, 225

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