The Loan of a Lover

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The Loan of a Lover is a vaudeville in one act by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)

The original text

Originally performed at the Olympic Theatre, London in and then at the Park Theatre, New York. Published in 1847 by W. Taylor & co., New York, as No IV in The Minor Drama series.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1847 edition by Taylor and Co., The Internet Archive[1]

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: pp.


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