Rob Roy (play)

Rob Roy (Rob Roy, the Gregarach) is an 1818 play by English playwright George Soane,^[1] based on the 1817 novel Rob Roy by Walter Scott.^[2] The play was first performed 25 March 1818 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane,^[1] with a cast including James William Wallack as Dougal.^[3]

John Langford Pritchard played the role of Rob Roy in 1825

Another popular stage version of Rob Roy, by Isaac Pocock, performed with traditional Scottish songs, was also premiered in 1818 and frequently revived thereafter.^[4]

References

1. "Rob Roy". Eighteenth Century Drama. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
2. Grey, Robert (June 1910). "The Scotch and the Drama". The Green Book Album. III (6): 1260. All except seven of [Walter] Scott's romances were made over into plays, and Rob Roy was the most popular of all of them. In 1818 it filled the house for forty-one consecutive nights, which was a great run in those days, and it was a tremendous money-maker. The Scotch people have always been very proud of it, and it is played in Scotland to-day.
3. "James William Wallack as Dougal in Rob Roy, the Gregarach". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
4. Cameron, Alasdair. "Scott, Rob Roy and the National Drama", University of Glasgow, 1988, accessed 11 June 2020