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Revision as of 07:15, 23 April 2015

A comic dramatic sketch (or farce) in one act by Douglas Jerrold.

The original text

Tells about a miser tries to marry off his ward to advantage. First performed at Sadlers Wells on 23 June, 1823 and published in London by J. Duncombe, [183-?]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1830: Played on 7 August by the All the World's a Stage in the African Theatre, with as afterpiece to The Flying Dutchman, or the Phantom Ship (Fitzball).


Sources

http://www.worldcat.org/title/smoked-miser-or-the-benefit-of-hanging-a-comic-dramatic-sketch-in-one-act/oclc/41328392

http://netlibrary.net/articles/miser

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 214,

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