The Point of Honour

The Point of Honour is a prose play in three acts by Charles Kemble (1775–1854).

The original text
This is an English adaptation of the five act French play Le Deserteur of Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740 – 1814), first published in 1771.

First performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1808 and published by Longman et al, London in 1808.

Performance history in South Africa
1822: Performed by the Garrison Players on 14 September 1827 in the Cape Town Theatre, with the burlesque Amoroso, King of Little Britain (Planché)) and The Irishman in London (Wm Macready)

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