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| − | A farce in two acts by William Thomas (W.T.) Moncrieff(1794-1857). Founded on a story of the same name in ''The Sketch Book'' by Washington Irving (published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in serial form 1819 and 1820).
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| − | First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on July 2nd, 1821.
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| − | Published in London and New York in 1821
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | Performed by the [[English Amateur Company]] in the [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] on 13 October, 1838, as afterpiece to ''[[Ambrose Guinett, or a Sea-Side Story]]'' (Jerrold). According to [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928)This was the last production to be mounted in the [[African Theatre]] and also the last by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Copy of the text in the Internet Archive[https://archive.org/details/spectrebridegroo00monc]
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| − | Copy of Samuel French text[http://victorian.worc.ac.uk/modx/assets/docs/pdf/Vol35viiSpectre.pdf]
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: p. 208
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| − | Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]
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| − | == Return to ==
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| − | Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 S|S]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
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| − | Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
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