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by James Robinson Planché. A Romantic Melodrama in two acts, preceded by an introductory vision. It was first performed at the English Opera House (Lyceum) on 9 August 1820, and published the same year by John Lowndes in London.
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According to Nunzia Cataldo (in THEA : Teaching&Study Aids [http://www.unipr.it/arpa/dipling/GT/Seminari/cataldo.html])It was an adaptation of a French melodrama, ''Le Vampire'' by Pierre Carmouche, Charles Nodier and Achille de Jouffry, (first staged in Paris, 13 June 1820. The French play was in its turn inspired by John Polidori’s tale, The Vampyre, published in 1819 and based on Fragment of a Novel, written by Lord Byron in 1816. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
Performed by the [[Private Amateur Company]] on 31 July 1837 in the [[Cape Town Theatre]], alongside ''[[The Miller's Maid]]'' (Saville).
 
 
 
Repeated by them on Monday 9 April, 1838, alongside ''[[Love in humble Life]]'' (Payne) and ''[[Amateurs and Actors]]'' (Peake).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 182
 
 
 
http://www.unipr.it/arpa/dipling/GT/Seminari/cataldo.html
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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