Rob Roy (play)

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Rob Roy (Rob Roy, the Gregarach) is an 1818 play by English playwright George Soane,{{cite web |url=http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2018 |title=Rob Roy |website=Eighteenth Century Drama |publisher=Adam Matthew Digital |access-date=January 15, 2019 }} based on the 1817 novel Rob Roy by Walter Scott.{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j24hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1260 |journal=The Green Book Album |date=June 1910 |volume=III |issue=6 |title=The Scotch and the Drama |first=Robert |last=Grey |page=1260 |quote=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.}} The play was first performed 25 March 1818 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with a cast including James William Wallack as Dougal.{{cite web |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw38925/James-William-Wallack-as-Dougal-in-Rob-Roy-the-Gregarach |title=James William Wallack as Dougal in Rob Roy, the Gregarach|publisher=National Portrait Gallery |access-date=January 15, 2019 }}

Another popular stage version of Rob Roy, by Isaac Pocock, performed with traditional Scottish songs, was also premiered in 1818 and frequently revived thereafter.Cameron, Alasdair. [https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/collections/STA/articles/national_drama/index.html "Scott, Rob Roy and the National Drama"], University of Glasgow, 1988, accessed 11 June 2020