Lucrezia Borgia - Revision history

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Lucretia Borgia, M.D., or La Grande Doctresse by Byron (1868)

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Lucrezia Borgia! At Home and All Abroad by Buckingham (1860)

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 ==Performances of plays and burlesques==
-: A piece titled ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' was performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in Port Elizabeth  as part of a short season while they stopped there ''en route'' from Mauritius to Cape Town. They apparently opened with this play, as they would also do the following year in Cape Town. (For the text used by the company, see below.)
+: A piece titled ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' was performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in Port Elizabeth  as part of a short season while they stopped there ''en route'' from Mauritius to Cape Town. They apparently opened with this play, as they would also do the following year in Cape Town. (For the text used by the company, see below.) Besides , the cast consisted of [[Miss José]], [[Mattie Aldrich]], [[W.G. Browne]] and [[E. Clifton]]
 : Performed once more as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 29 January, with ''[[A Duel in the Dark]]'' (Coyne) as afterpiece. Bosman (1980) suggests this was probably the Weston version, though the next performance (on the 15th of March) bills it as a "laughable [[Ethiopian farce]]", which seems to suggest that it was rather a [[burlesque]] version of the Donizetti opera. Given the company's normal fare of burlesque-style plays, the latter sounds the more likely, and given the date of production, they probably used Buckingham's text of ''[[Lucrezia Borgia! At Home and All Abroad]]''. The production was apparently very well received.

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 ==Performances of the opera==
-: Performed tin the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Miranda-Harper Company]] on 15 and 19 October, with a cast that included [[David Miranda]], [[Mrs Leffler]], [[Annette Hirst]], [[J.H. Leffler]], and [[Henry Harper]].
+: Performed tin the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Miranda-Harper Company]] on 15 and 19 October, with a cast that included [[David Miranda]], [[Mrs Leffler]], [[Annette Hirst]], [[James Leffler]], and [[Henry Harper]].
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 ==Performances of the opera==
-: Performed tin the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Miranda-Harper Company]] on 15 and 19 October, with a cast that included ''[[David Miranda]], [[Mrs Leffler]], [[Annette Hirst]], [[J.H. Leffler]], and [[Henry Harper]].
+: Performed tin the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Miranda-Harper Company]] on 15 and 19 October, with a cast that included [[David Miranda]], [[Mrs Leffler]], [[Annette Hirst]], [[J.H. Leffler]], and [[Henry Harper]].
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 ==Performances of the opera==
-: Performed tin the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Miranda-Harper Company]] .
+: Performed tin the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Miranda-Harper Company]] on 15 and 19 October, with a cast that included ''[[David Miranda]], [[Mrs Leffler]], [[Annette Hirst]], [[J.H. Leffler]], and [[Henry Harper]].
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 The text was published by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in the same year, the work being billed as "A new and original burlesque in one act", and referred to in the text as a "Lucrezia Borgia Travestie".
-==''[[Lucretia Borgia, M.D., or La Grande Doctresse]]'' by Byron (1868)==
+=='''''[[Lucretia Borgia, M.D., or La Grande Doctresse]]''''' by Byron (1868)==
 ''[[Lucretia Borgia, M.D., or La Grande Doctresse]]'' is described as "An original burlesque extravaganza. Founded on a famous opera" by Henry James Byron (1835–1884)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_Byron]. First performed in the Theatre Royal at Holborn on 28 October, 1868, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays. vol. 87, in 1871.

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 The French text was adapted as a three act English drama called '''''[[Lucretia Borgia]]''''' ("A Drama in Three Acts : Adapted from the French of Victor Hugo ") by John M. Weston (fl. mid 19th century), an American stage manager and comedian in New Orleans, and first produced professionally in the St Charles Theatre, New Orleans in 1844 by the author himself. It then played at the Fedral Street Theatre, and various other venues in Boston from 1847 onwards, and made its Broadway appearance in 1855. The text first published in New York  by [[Samuel French]] (as no CCL of French's Standard Drama, circa 1865) and in London by J. Dicks (circa 1880).
-==''[[Lucrezia Borgia! At Home and All Abroad]]'' by Buckingham (1860)==
+=='''''[[Lucrezia Borgia! At Home and All Abroad]]''''' by Buckingham (1860)==
 Written by Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_Silk_Buckingham],  it was first performed at the Royal St James's Theatre, London,  on 9 April, 1860, with music arranged by Frederick Kingsbury and George Hayward. It was a burlesque of  Donizetti’s opera and targeted the high rate of income tax that was at the time so upsetting to  the middle classes.

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 : A piece titled ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' was performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in Port Elizabeth  as part of a short season while they stopped there ''en route'' from Mauritius to Cape Town. They apparently opened with this play, as they would also do the following year in Cape Town. (For the text used by the company, see below.)
-: Performed once more as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 29 January, with ''[[A Duel in the Dark]]'' (Coyne) as afterpiece. Bosman (1980) suggests this was probably the Weston version, though the next performance (on the 15th of March) bills it as a "laughable [[Ethiopian farce]]", which seems to suggest that it was rather a [[burlesque]] version of the Donizetti opera. Given the company's normal fare of burlesque-style plays, the latter sounds the more likely.  (Given the date of production, they probably used the Buckingham text.) The production was apparently very well received.
+: Performed once more as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 29 January, with ''[[A Duel in the Dark]]'' (Coyne) as afterpiece. Bosman (1980) suggests this was probably the Weston version, though the next performance (on the 15th of March) bills it as a "laughable [[Ethiopian farce]]", which seems to suggest that it was rather a [[burlesque]] version of the Donizetti opera. Given the company's normal fare of burlesque-style plays, the latter sounds the more likely, and given the date of production, they probably used Buckingham's text of ''[[Lucrezia Borgia! At Home and All Abroad]]''. The production was apparently very well received.
 : What appears to have been billed as "the third and fourth acts" of ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' were performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 16 July, in a composite programme that also included the "balcony scene" from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', the last act of ''[[Fazio]]'', and ''[[The Turned Head]]''. As none of the dramatized versions discussed above actually have more than three acts, this almost assuredly refers to two '''scenes''' from the Buckingham burlesque (the text of which describes Scene Three  as set in a "public square in Ferrara" and Scene Four in "a street in Ferrarra", the latter including a "Terrific Broadsword Combat!".)

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 : Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 29 January, with ''[[A Duel in the Dark]]'' (Coyne) as afterpiece. Bosman (1980) suggests this was probably the Weston version, though the next performance (on the 15th of March) bills it as a "laughable [[Ethiopian farce]]", which seems to suggest that it was rather a [[burlesque]] version of the Donizetti opera. Given the company's normal fare of burlesque-style plays, the latter sounds the more likely.  (Given the date of production, they probably used the Buckingham text.) The production was apparently very well received.
-: What appears to have been billed as "the third and fourth acts" of ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' were performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 16 July, in a composite programme that also included the "balcony scene" from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', the last act of ''[[Fazio]]'', and ''[[The Turned Head]]''. As none of the versions discussed above actually have more than three acts, this almost assuredly refers to two '''scenes''' from the Buckingham burlesque (the
+: What appears to have been billed as "the third and fourth acts" of ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' were performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 16 July, in a composite programme that also included the "balcony scene" from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', the last act of ''[[Fazio]]'', and ''[[The Turned Head]]''. As none of the dramatized versions discussed above actually have more than three acts, this almost assuredly refers to two '''scenes''' from the Buckingham burlesque (the text of which describes Scene Three  as set in a "public square in Ferrara" and Scene Four in "a street in Ferrarra", the latter including a "Terrific Broadsword Combat!".)
 : Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 31 January, with ''[[Mrs Green's Snug Little Business]]'' (Cheltnam) as afterpiece.