Difference between revisions of "All is not Gold that Glisters"

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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
First performed in March 1600. Not printed.
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First performed in March 1600 or 1601. Not printed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:59, 9 September 2017

All is not Gold that Glisters is a play by Henry Chettle (c.1564–c.1606)[1] and Samuel Rowley (fl. 17th c)[2]

Title also found as All is not Gold that Glitters

See also All that Glitters is not Gold by J.M. Morton.


The original text

First performed in March 1600 or 1601. Not printed.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1861: Performed as All is not Gold that Glitters, or The Factory Girl, a beautiful pathetic play by Chettle and Rowley, performed on 27 April in the Cape Town Theatre.


1861: Performed as on 13 May 1861, the opening night of the newly completed Theatre Royal.


1862: Performed final performance on 11 April.

1865: Performed in Port Elizabeth on 31 July, with Mrs Clara Tellett appearing as "Martha Gibbs".


Sources

William Davenport Adams. A dictionary of the drama; a guide to the plays, play-wrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present: page 9, Google Online Library[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 69, 73, 76, 97, 100, 112, 139.


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