Human Nature

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According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975: pp.404-5) there were two versions of a play by this name.


Not to be confused with the 2001 American film called Human Nature'

Human Nature (1867)

A light comedy written by Augustus Glossop Harris (1825-1873)[1] and T.J. Williams (fl 1860s).

The original text

Olympic Theatre, London, 22 July 1867

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Human Nature (1885)

Written shortly after the fall of Khartoum, it is a melodrama about the vengeance of a cast-off mistress at the time of the British war in the Sudan, written by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[2] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[3]

The original text

First performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 12 September, 1885

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1904: The Drury Lane (i.e. Pettitt and Harris) version performed by Leonard Rayne and his company in the Opera House , Cape Town in the first half of the year.

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: pp.404-5[4]

Sos Eltis. 2013. Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930. Ocford University Press[5]

Jacqueline S. Bratton, et al. 1991. Acts of Supremacy: The British Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930. Manchester University Press[6]

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/poster-advertising-the-play-human-nature-written-by-henry-news-photo/53041725

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)

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 1932. (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.420

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