# Rob Roy (play)

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1818 play

[John Langford Pritchard](/source/John_Langford_Pritchard) played the role of [Rob Roy](/source/Rob_Roy_MacGregor) in 1825

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

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

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Adam_Matthew_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Adam_Matthew_1-1) ["Rob Roy"](http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2018). *Eighteenth Century Drama*. [Adam Matthew Digital](/source/Adam_Matthew_Digital). Retrieved January 15, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Grey, Robert (June 1910). ["The Scotch and the Drama"](https://books.google.com/books?id=j24hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1260). *The Green Book Album*. **III** (6): 1260. All except seven of [Walter] Scott's romances were made over into plays, and [*Rob Roy*](/source/Rob_Roy_(novel)) 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["James William Wallack as Dougal in *Rob Roy, the Gregarach*"](https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw38925/James-William-Wallack-as-Dougal-in-Rob-Roy-the-Gregarach). [National Portrait Gallery](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London). Retrieved January 15, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Cameron, Alasdair. ["Scott, *Rob Roy* and the National Drama"](https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/collections/STA/articles/national_drama/index.html), [University of Glasgow](/source/University_of_Glasgow), 1988, accessed 11 June 2020

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