Belphegor the Mountebank, or Pride of Bath

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Belphegor the Mountebank, or Pride of Bath is a play by Benjamin Nottingham Webster (1797-1882).

The original text

A play about a character named Belphegor, one of a number of translations and adaptations of the French play Paillasse by Adolphe d' Ennery and Marc Fournier. Webster's English version of the French work was first performed by Webster himself in the Adelphi Theatre, London, during January 1851.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1875: Performed as Belphegor, or The Mountebank (ascribed to J. Courtney) in the Bilou Theatre , Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 23 September, as a benefit for Sutton Vane, with A Regular Fix ().

1875: Performed as Belphegor, or The Mountebank (ascribed to J. Courtney) in the Bilou Theatre , Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 23 September, with Jessie Vere ().

1876: Performed as Belphegor, or The Mountebank (ascribed to J. Courtney) in the Bilou Theatre , Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 23 September, with Jessie Vere ().

1877: Performed as Belphegor the Mountebank, or Pride of Bath (ascribed to Webster) in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 19 November.

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.363.


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