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''[[Her Second Time on Earth]]'' is a play by Walter Melville

==The original text==

One of the so-called "Bad Women Dramas" by  Frederick Melville and Walter Melville, i.e.  plays with a strong moral theme, very much suited to the tastes of the day. 

First performed on 9 October 1902 in the Standard Theatre, London.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==


1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 

== Sources ==

The Melville Collection The University of Kent Library Special Collections and Archives [https://www.kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/theatre/melville/overview/plays/bad-woman-dramas.html]

Elaine Aston and Ian Clarke. 1996. "The Dangerous Woman of Melvillean Drama" in ''New Theatre Quarterly'' 45: Volume 12, Part 1. Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=dsKwV58Y5S8C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=Her+Second+Time+on+Earth+by+Walter+Melville&source=bl&ots=F6aYhJA3oo&sig=ACfU3U0KmiKhxbMGUZrLR4Q0NBq_cTQoCQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo_tGv38joAhW-QxUIHQwYBOoQ6AEwAnoECAsQKA#v=onepage&q=Her%20Second%20Time%20on%20Earth%20by%20Walter%20Melville&f=false].  

[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|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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