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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1862: According to [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1980, it was probably the play performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs]]'' by [[Sefton Parry]] company on 2 April, as part of a benefit for [[Samuel Wolfe]]. It accompanied a play listed as
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1862: According to [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1980, it was probably the play performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs]]'' by [[Sefton Parry]] company on 2 April, as part of a benefit for [[Samuel Wolfe]]. It accompanied a play billed/listed(?) as
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:12, 17 May 2019

The Goose with the Golden Eggs is a farce in one act by Augustus Mayhew (1826-1875) and Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906).

The original text

First performed at The Strand Theatre, London, on 1 September, 1859.

Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy as Lacy's acting edition no 654 and by Samuel French in 1859 and in Chicago by the Dramatic Publishing Company

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: According to Bosman, 1980, it was probably the play performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs by Sefton Parry company on 2 April, as part of a benefit for Samuel Wolfe. It accompanied a play billed/listed(?) as

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1859 edition by Samuel French, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 111,

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