page_title: Isaac Pocock
section_title: Dramatic works
hierarchical_section_title: Isaac Pocock / Dramatic works
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement for the programme at the Theatre Royal, Jersey:31 Janvier 1829 - Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne by Isaac Pocock
context_page_description: Isaac Pocock was an English dramatist and painter of portraits and historical subjects. He wrote melodramas, farces and light operatic comedies, many being stage adaptations of existing novels. Of his 40 or so works, the most successful was Hit and Miss, a musical farce. The mariner Sir Isaac Pocock was his uncle.
context_section_description: Pocock's first dramatic work was a musical farce in two acts, entitled Yes or No?, produced at the Haymarket Theatre, in London on 31 August 1808, and performed ten times. It received mixed reviews.
  It was followed by many similar productions, of which Hit or Miss!, with music by Charles Smith, was by far the most successful, opening at the Lyceum on 26 February 1810, and performed at least 33 times. Its success, it was said, was owed to the performance of Charles Mathews in the character "Dick Cypher". In 1815 Mathews appeared also in Pocock's Mr. Farce-Writer at the Covent Garden Theatre.
  Twenty Years Ago, a melodramatic entertainment, was performed at the Lyceum Theatre in 1810. Anything New, with overture and music by Charles Smith, was given on 1 July 1811, but the Green-eyed Monster, produced on 14 October with William Dowton, William Oxberry, and Miss Mellon in the cast, was harshly reviewed. Nevertheless, it was revived at Drury Lane in 1828, when William Farren and Ellen Tree played in it. The music was composed by Thomas Welsh. Shown the next season was a burletta by Pocock called "Harry Le Roy".
  Pocock's Miller and his Men, a popular romantic melodrama with music by Henry Bishop, was still playing in 1835. For England Ho!, a melodramatic opera, produced at Covent Garden on 15 December 1813, and acted some 11 times, was published in 1814. John of Paris, a comic opera adapted from the French, was produced at Covent Garden on 12 October 1814, and performed 17 times. Liston played an innkeeper. When revived at the Haymarket in 1826, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris was in the cast. It was again played at Covent Garden in 1835. Zembuca, or the Net-maker, first given at Covent Garden, as "a holiday piece" on 27 March 1815, was played 28 times. The Magpie or the Maid (John Miller, 1815),</ref> a drama in three acts, a second edition of which appeared in 1816, was adapted from the French of Louis-Charles Caigniez and Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny. It was first printed in 1814. "Robinson Crusoe, or the Bold Buccaneers", a romantic drama in two acts, was produced as an Easter piece at Covent Garden in 1817, with Charles Farley in the title rôle and Joseph Grimaldi as Friday. It was published, with remarks by George Daniel, and printed in Lacy's and Dick's Collections. It was revived in 1826.
  Pocock later adapted some of the Waverley novels as operatic dramas. On 12 March 1818 his Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne, an operatic drama in three acts, was first played at Covent Garden. William Charles Macready took the title role, John Liston played Baillie Nicol Jarvie, and Miss Stephens Di Vernon. It was acted 34 times. It was played at Bath, for Farren's benefit, on 15 April 1815, when James Prescott Warde was successful as Rob Roy. In the revival of the following year Farren took Liston's place as the Baillie. This play and Pocock's John of Paris were given together at Bath on the occasion of Warde's farewell to the stage, on 5 June 1820. James William Wallack played in Rob Roy at Drury Lane in January 1826; and Madame Vestris impersonated Di Vernon at the Haymarket in October 1824. The play was published in 1818. Montrose, or the Children of the Mist, three acts, produced at Covent Garden on 14 February 1822, was not so successful, though it was played 19 or 20 times. Liston appeared as Dugald Dalgetty. "Woodstock", five acts, first acted on 20 May 1826, was a comparative failure, though the cast included Charles Kemble and Farren. Peveril of the Peak, three acts, produced on 21 October of the same year, was acted nine times. The Antiquary was also unsuccessful. Home, Sweet Home, or the Ranz des Vaches, a musical entertainment, was produced at Covent Garden on 19 March 1829, with Madame Vestris and Keeley in the cast.
  Besides these plays, Pocock wrote The Heir of Veroni and The Libertine, operas, in 1817, Husbands and Wives, a farce in 1817, The Robber's Wife, a romantic drama in two acts, adapted from the German in 1829 with music by F. Ries, The Corporal's Wedding, a farce in 1830, The Omnibus, an interlude, in 1831, Country 
caption: Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne was performed at the Theatre Royal, Jersey, on 31 January 1829
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