{{Short description|1818 play}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Rob Roy'' (play)}} [[File:Mr John Langford Pritchard as Rob Roy.jpg|thumb|[[John Langford Pritchard]] played the role of [[Rob Roy MacGregor|Rob Roy]] in 1825]]
'''''Rob Roy''''' ('''''Rob Roy, the Gregarach''''') is an 1818 play by English playwright [[George Soane]],<ref name="Adam Matthew">{{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 }}</ref> based on the 1817 novel [[Rob Roy (novel)|''Rob Roy'']] by [[Walter Scott]].<ref>{{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 (novel)|''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.}}</ref> The play was first performed 25 March 1818 at [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]],<ref name="Adam Matthew"/> with a cast including [[James William Wallack]] as Dougal.<ref>{{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, London|National Portrait Gallery]] |access-date=January 15, 2019 }}</ref>
Another popular stage version of ''Rob Roy'', by [[Isaac Pocock]], performed with traditional Scottish songs, was also premiered in 1818 and frequently revived thereafter.<ref>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</ref>
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