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''[[Japie's Courtship]]'' is a one act play by an author with the ''nom-de-plume'' of "[[Mowbray-Kloof]]".

According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".

1911: Produced in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, by an unnamed company, failing totally.

[[Gosher]], 1988)

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 The pseudonym, which appears to be a combination of (parts of) the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs ("'''Mowbray'''" and "Tamboers'''kloof'''" - i.e. "drum ravine"), suggests a Cape Town  author. According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
-Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[S.P. Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the author.
+Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[S.P. Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the name of an author.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==The original text==
-The pseudonym, a combination of the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs, suggests a Cape Town  author. According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
+The pseudonym, which appears to be a combination of (parts of) the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs ("'''Mowbray'''" and "Tamboers'''kloof'''" - i.e. "drum ravine"), suggests a Cape Town  author. According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
 Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[S.P. Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the author.

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 ==The original text==
-The pseudonym, a combination of the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs, suggests a local author, According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
+The pseudonym, a combination of the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs, suggests a Cape Town  author. According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
 Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[S.P. Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the author.

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 The pseudonym, a combination of the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs, suggests a local author, According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
-Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the author.
+Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[S.P. Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the author.
 ==Translations and adaptations==
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Produced in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town,  by an unnamed company, failing totally.
+: Produced in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town,  by an unnamed company, failing deservedly in the view of Boonzaier.
 == Sources ==
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 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.435
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 ''[[Japie's Courtship]]'' is a one act play by an author with the ''nom-de-plume'' of "[[Mowbray-Kloof]]".
-The pseudonym, a combination of the names of two Cape Town suburbs, suggests a local author, According to the critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of [[Stephen Black|Mr Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]''".
+==The original text==
 Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian [[Gosher]] (1988), who does not mention the author.
 : Produced in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town,  by an unnamed company, failing totally.