Joe Desmond's Revenge

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Joe Desmond's Revenge is an unknown play by an anonymous author.

The original text

Described as "a tragedy in three acts" in Bosman (1980), but may possibly have been a Christy's style piece.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1871: Apparently performed in on 24 May, 1871, by the Amateur Coloured Troupe in in the Institute Assembly Hall, Cape Town.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 278-9


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