Cirrus@Austlit

Advertisement for: Performance on 15 March 1838 of ‘the Melo-Drama, in Three Acts, entitled Melmoth the Wanderer, and Walberg, the Victim’; ‘to conclude with the Petite Comedy, in Two Acts called Charles the Second, or, The Merry Monarch’ [John Howard Payne, 1824].

Advertisement for: Performance on 8 March 1838 of ‘for the first time these two years, the popular Comedy, in 2 Acts, called Charles the Second, or, The Merry Monarch’ [John Howard Payne, 1824]; and ‘the serious Drama, in 3 Acts, called Therese, or, The Orphan of Geneva’, [Henri Joseph Brahaim Ducange Victor, translated and adapted for the English stage by John Howard Payne, 1821].

Advertisement for performance at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on 22 March 1838 of: ‘the Petite Comedy, entitled Charles the Second, or, The Merry Monarch’ [John Howard Payne, 1824]. 'In the course of the Piece [Charles the Second], Mrs. [Anne] Clarke will sing the favorite Songs of 'Why did I Love,' the 'Banks of the Blue Moselle,' and the duet of 'My Pretty Page look afar' with Mrs [Maria] Taylor. The performance concluded with the Historical Drama in three Acts, called Tower of Nesle ’.

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Advertisement for: Performance on 10 March 1838 of ‘for the first time these two years, the popular Comedy, in 2 Acts, called Charles the Second, or, The Merry Monarch’ [John Howard Payne, 1824]; and ‘to conclude with the Melo Drama in two Acts, called The Charcoal Burner, or, The Dropping Well of Knaresborough’ [George Almar, 1832].

Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 21 April 1838 of: ‘the admired Comedy, from the pen of John Howard Payne, Esq., entitled Charles the Second, or, the Merry Monarch’; ‘To conclude with the Domestic Drama, entitled Henriette, the Forsaken ’ [John Baldwin Buckstone, 1832].