Honesty the Best Policy - Revision history

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Performance history in South Africa

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Sources

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The original text

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Plays with this title

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The original text

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The original text

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 === Performance history in South Africa ===
-: Originally scheduled for production on 5 June 1854, and finally performed (as ''Honesty is the Best Policy'') in Cape Town's [[Garrison Theatre]]  by the [[Garrison Players]] on 18 September 1854 as part of a benefit performance for the comedian [[Mr Kirton]], along with  ''[[The Spitalfields Weaver]]'' (Bayly) and ''[[Middle Temple]]'' (Peake).
+: Originally scheduled for production on 5 June 1854, and finally performed (as ''[[Honesty is the Best Policy]]'') in Cape Town's [[Garrison Theatre]]  by the [[Garrison Players]] on 18 September 1854 as part of a benefit performance for the comedian [[Mr Kirton]], along with  ''[[The Spitalfields Weaver]]'' (Bayly) and ''[[Middle Temple]]'' (Peake).
 = Sources =

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	Facsimile version of the first edition of the Dumaniant text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0ltoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]		Facsimile version of the first edition of the Dumaniant text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0ltoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]
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		+	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumaniant

	''Biographia Dramatica'', A-L, Volume 1 (1812)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=7f8XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=Honesty+the+Best+Policy+a+farce+by&source=bl&ots=NabPMLW3tR&sig=x18YSWL6wupD9Irfac7HOrgPe8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitjcezkdrSAhVkJcAKHVy1CyYQ6AEIMzAH#v=onepage&q=Honesty%20the%20Best%20Policy%20a%20farce%20by&f=false]		''Biographia Dramatica'', A-L, Volume 1 (1812)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=7f8XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=Honesty+the+Best+Policy+a+farce+by&source=bl&ots=NabPMLW3tR&sig=x18YSWL6wupD9Irfac7HOrgPe8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitjcezkdrSAhVkJcAKHVy1CyYQ6AEIMzAH#v=onepage&q=Honesty%20the%20Best%20Policy%20a%20farce%20by&f=false]

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 === The original text ===
-Described as "adapted to the English stage", from a French text. The source text was possibly ''[[L'Honnête Homme, ou Le Rival Généreux]]'',  a three act comedy ("comédie en trois actes et en vers") by Dumaniant, first performed on 5 February 1789 at the Palais-Royal in Paris and published by Cailleau in Paris the same year.
+Described as "adapted to the English stage", from a French text. The source text was possibly ''[[L'Honnête Homme, ou Le Rival Généreux]]'',  a three act comedy ("comédie en trois actes et en vers") by Dumaniant (1752-1828)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumaniant], first performed on 5 February 1789 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris and published by Cailleau in Paris the same year.
 Lemon's version was first performed in London in 1800, and was published  by Davidson in the same year.

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 ''[[The World As It Goes, or Honesty the Best Policy]]'', a farce by J. H. Colls. Performed at the Norwich Theatre, 1792, and also at the Wolverhampton Theatre. (The same as the previously censored work?)
-''[[Honesty the Best Policy]]''  a drama in two acts by Mark Lemon (adapted from the French, first performed and published in 1800.
+''[[Honesty the Best Policy]]''  a drama in two acts by Mark Lemon (adapted from the French), first performed and published in 1800.
 ''[[Honesty is the Best Policy, or True to the Core]]'', a play in one act and one scene by John Maguire, published in New York by C.T. De Witt, 1877.

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 https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honesty_the_Best_Policy.html?id=eFE5QAAACAAJ&hl=en
-Facsimile version of the first edition of https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0ltoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
+Facsimile version of the first edition of the Dumaniant text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0ltoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]
 ''Biographia Dramatica'', A-L, Volume 1 (1812)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=7f8XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=Honesty+the+Best+Policy+a+farce+by&source=bl&ots=NabPMLW3tR&sig=x18YSWL6wupD9Irfac7HOrgPe8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitjcezkdrSAhVkJcAKHVy1CyYQ6AEIMzAH#v=onepage&q=Honesty%20the%20Best%20Policy%20a%20farce%20by&f=false]

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	https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honesty_the_Best_Policy.html?id=eFE5QAAACAAJ&hl=en		https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Honesty_the_Best_Policy.html?id=eFE5QAAACAAJ&hl=en
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		+	Facsimile version of the first edition of https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0ltoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

	''Biographia Dramatica'', A-L, Volume 1 (1812)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=7f8XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=Honesty+the+Best+Policy+a+farce+by&source=bl&ots=NabPMLW3tR&sig=x18YSWL6wupD9Irfac7HOrgPe8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitjcezkdrSAhVkJcAKHVy1CyYQ6AEIMzAH#v=onepage&q=Honesty%20the%20Best%20Policy%20a%20farce%20by&f=false]		''Biographia Dramatica'', A-L, Volume 1 (1812)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=7f8XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=Honesty+the+Best+Policy+a+farce+by&source=bl&ots=NabPMLW3tR&sig=x18YSWL6wupD9Irfac7HOrgPe8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitjcezkdrSAhVkJcAKHVy1CyYQ6AEIMzAH#v=onepage&q=Honesty%20the%20Best%20Policy%20a%20farce%20by&f=false]

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 ''[[Honesty the Best Policy]]'', a two act farce featuring a bookseller, a naturalist, a poet, and a middle aged man, written by an anonymous author, and printed in 1791, but censored and withdrawn from performance at the Covent Garden theatre.
-''[[The World As It Goes, or Honesty the best Policy]]'', a farce by J. H. Colls. Performed at the Norwich Theatre, 1792, and also at the Wolverhampton Theatre. (The same as the previously censored work?)
+''[[The World As It Goes, or Honesty the Best Policy]]'', a farce by J. H. Colls. Performed at the Norwich Theatre, 1792, and also at the Wolverhampton Theatre. (The same as the previously censored work?)
 ''[[Honesty the Best Policy]]''  a drama in two acts by Mark Lemon (adapted from the French, first performed and published in 1800.
-''[[Honesty is the best policy, or, True to the core]]'', a play in one act and one scene by John Maguire, published in New York by C.T. De Witt, 1877.
+''[[Honesty is the Best Policy, or True to the Core]]'', a play in one act and one scene by John Maguire, published in New York by C.T. De Witt, 1877.
 =Plays by this name known to have been performed in South Africa=

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 ''[[Honesty the Best Policy]]'' is a popular title for theatrical works.
-=Plays by this name=
+=Plays with this title=
 There have been a number of plays known by this name over the years, or containing the phrase it in its full title.