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| − | A farce in two acts by William Thomas (W.T.) Moncrieff(1794-1857). (Sometimes only listed as ''[[The Spectre Bridegroom]]''). 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).
| + | #REDIRECT[[The Spectre Bridegroom, or A Ghost in Spite of Himself]] |
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| − | First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Monday, July 2, 1821 by Elliston.
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| − | Published in London and New York in 1821. Printed by J. Tabby, 1821.
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| − | Full title: ''The Spectre Bridegroom, or A Ghost in Spite of Himself''
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1831: Performed by [[All the World's a Stage]] under the management of Mr Booth in the [[African Theatre]] on 17 December, 1831 as afterpiece to ''[[Der Freischütz]]'' (Weber) and ''[[The Lawyer in the Sack]]''.
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| − | 1833: Performed as part of a "Farewell Benefit" for [[Mr Booth]] by [[All the World's a Stage]] in the [[African Theatre]] on 5 March, 1833. The other pieces are ''[[Richard III|Richard the Third]]'' (Shakespeare) and ''[[Wild Oats]]'' (O'Keefe).
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| − | 1838: 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). The name of the author is wrongly spelled "Moncrieffe" in the source for this production. (According to [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928), this was to be the last production mounted in the [[African Theatre]] before it was sold and turned into a church, and it was also the last production by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843, for the Methodist [[Anti-theatre Movement|anti-theatre movement]] had temporarily won the battle.)
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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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| − | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moncrieff,_William_Thomas_(DNB00)
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| − | Worldcat website[http://www.worldcat.org/title/spectre-bridegroom-or-a-ghost-in-spite-of-himself-a-farce-in-two-acts-by-w-t-moncrieff/oclc/458041523]
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| − | http://www.worldcat.org/title/spectre-bridegroom/oclc/56886389?referer=di&ht=edition
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: p. 208, 2018, 225
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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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