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| − | ''[[The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk]]'' is a farce in one act by Samuel Beazley (1786–1851)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beazley], with attribution to Louis-Benoît Picard (1769-1828). and/or Jean Baptiste Radet (1752-1830).
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| − | (For instance a version published in New York and Philadelphia by Turner and Fisher [ca. 1830], is listed in the Hathi Trust Digital Library as by Beazley as well as both French authors.)[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011207781]
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| − | The shortened title, ''[[The Lottery Ticket]]'', is often found.
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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | An adaptation of ''[[La Maison en Loterie]]'', by Louis-Benoit Picard and Jean Baptiste Radet (who are often mentioned, singly or together, as additional authors of the English text).
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| − | The Beazley version was first Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in December 1826. First published as ''[[The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk]]'', with no author mentioned, by C. Chapple in 1827.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | There is also a later one act farce, entitled ''[[The Lottery Ticket, or The Lawyers's Clerk]]'' , credited to John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879), and published by Samuel French (No CXXXVII in the series The Minor Drama, 1880). Possibly a new version of Beazley's original or it was simply wrongly attributed, as mentioned in the Harvard Library catalogue entry[http://harvard-primosb.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=HVD&docId=HVD_ALEPH002662175&fromSitemap=1&afterPDS=true] on this text, which addresses this anomaly with the following entry:
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| − | "Acting copy. An adaptation of ''La maison en loterie'' by Picard and Radet. Wrongly attributed to John Baldwin Buckstone."
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| − | (See also Hathi Trust Digital Library catalogue entry[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012435957] and Caliban Book Shop website[http://www.calibanbooks.com/pages/books/C000026164/j-b-buckstone/the-lottery-ticket-or-the-lawyers-clerk-a-farce-in-one-act-the-minor-drama-no-cxxxvii#sthash.L3CpamDD.dpuf])
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1846: First performed as ''[[The Lottery Ticket, or the Lawyer's Clerk]]'' in Cape Town by the [[All the World's a Stage]] on Friday, 4 September, with ''[[The Brigand]]'' (Planché) and ''[[The Original]]'' (Morton).
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| − | 1855: Performed in Cape Town on Thursday 26 July 1855 by [[Sefton Parry]] as part of his farewell performance, alongside ''[[A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock]]'' (Brough) and ''[[Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan]]'' (M'Pherson).
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beazley
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| − | https://archive.org/stream/lotteryticketan00picagoog#page/n4/mode/2up
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| − | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001426280
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| − | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012435957
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| − | Library of Congress Internet Archive[http://archive.org/details/lotteryticketlaw00beaz]
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 415, 433
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| − | http://www.calibanbooks.com/pages/books/C000026164/j-b-buckstone/the-lottery-ticket-or-the-lawyers-clerk-a-farce-in-one-act-the-minor-drama-no-cxxxvii#sthash.L3CpamDD.dpuf
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| − | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011207781]
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