The Surgeon of Paris

The Surgeon of Paris is an historical drama, in four acts, by J.S. Jones (Joseph Stevens Jones, 1809-1877)[1].

Also known as The Surgeon of Paris, or The Mask of the Huguenots

The original text

A play about the massacre of the Huguenots in Paris, it is the sequel to the same author's The Carpenter of Rouen[2].

First published by William V. Spencer, Boston, 1856.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed on 3 August by the Disney Roebuck's company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, at the time under the temporary management of C. Wilstone. The author not credited. Also played was My Turn Next (Williams).

Sources

Facsimile version of the original published text, Google E-Book[3]

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

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1984597

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: pp.203-205

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