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''[[A Ticket-of-Leave]]'' is a farce in one act by Watts Phillips (1825–1874)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Phillips], 

''Not to be confused with '''''[[The Ticket-of-Leave Man]]''''', the [[melodrama]] by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor].''

Also found as ''[[A Ticket of Leave]]''.

==The original text==

The play opened at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, under the management of Benjamin Webster, on 1st December, 1862. 

Published as ''[[A Ticket-of-Leave]]'' in Clyde, Ohio by Ames & Holgate, [1862?]



==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==


== Sources ==


Facsimile version of the Ames and Holgate publication of the text, [[HathiTrust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054682653;view=1up;seq=2]

E. Godfrey. 2010. ''Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger'' Springer, p. 163[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=PeYgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=A+Ticket+of+Leave+a+farce+by+W.+Phillips&source=bl&ots=3sovFLsdKz&sig=ACfU3U0X663czP6exloWldTmVBaooUqchA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiBmMidsYXgAhWj5OAKHYXWBkYQ6AEwDXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=A%20Ticket%20of%20Leave%20a%20farce%20by%20W.%20Phillips&f=false]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phillips,_Watts_(DNB00)

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

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