Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant - Revision history

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 [[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
-[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 130, 397-8
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 130, 397-8, 423-4
 [[Jill Fletcher]]. 1994. ''The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Cape Town: Vlaeberg

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 '''1893:''' Performed in the [[Opera House]] Cape Town by the [[Lyric Opera Company]], as part of their repertoire while touring the country at the time, and featuring [[Leonora Braham]].
-ca.1890s: Performed by the [[Woodstock Amateur Operatic Society]] under the direction of [[Amos Bailey]], with the orchestra conducted by [[Frank Robb]].
+'''''circa'' 1900:''' Performed by [[Amos Bailey]] and the [[Woodstock Amateur Operatic Society]], Cape Town,  in their newly contructed school hall as one of their [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] productions. The orchestra conducted by [[Frank Robb]].
 '''1938:''' Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]]

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 '''1893:''' Performed in the [[Opera House]] Cape Town by the [[Lyric Opera Company]], as part of their repertoire while touring the country at the time, and featuring [[Leonora Braham]].
-ca.1900: Performed by the [[Woodstock Amateur Operatic Society]] under the direction of [[Amos Bailey]], with the orchestra conducted by [[Frank Robb]].
+ca.1890s: Performed by the [[Woodstock Amateur Operatic Society]] under the direction of [[Amos Bailey]], with the orchestra conducted by [[Frank Robb]].
 '''1938:''' Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]]

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	'''1893:''' Performed in the [[Opera House]] Cape Town by the [[Lyric Opera Company]], as part of their repertoire while touring the country at the time, and featuring [[Leonora Braham]].		'''1893:''' Performed in the [[Opera House]] Cape Town by the [[Lyric Opera Company]], as part of their repertoire while touring the country at the time, and featuring [[Leonora Braham]].
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		+	ca.1900: Performed by the [[Woodstock Amateur Operatic Society]] under the direction of [[Amos Bailey]], with the orchestra conducted by [[Frank Robb]].

	'''1938:''' Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]]		'''1938:''' Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]]

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-'''1893:''' Performed in the [[Opera House]] Cape Town by the [[Lyric Opera Company]], as part of their repertoire while touring the country at the time.
+'''1893:''' Performed in the [[Opera House]] Cape Town by the [[Lyric Opera Company]], as part of their repertoire while touring the country at the time, and featuring [[Leonora Braham]].
 '''1938:''' Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]]

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	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)
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		+	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

	[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)		[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

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 The book for ''[[Princess Ida]]'' was based on one of Gilbert's earlier plays, '''''[[The Princess]]'''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(W._S._Gilbert_play)], which is a blank verse farcical work, in five scenes with music, first produced at the Olympic Theatre in London on 8 January 1870.
-Gilbert's play had in turn been based on '''''[[The Princess]]''''' (1847)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)], a narrative poem (styled "A medley") by Alfred Lord Tennyson ()[]. Gilbert himself once described ''[[Princess Ida]]'' as a "a whimsical allegory ... a respectful operatic per-version"  of Tennyson's poem [].
+Gilbert's play had in turn been based on '''''[[The Princess]]''''' (1847)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)], a narrative poem (styled "A medley") by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson]. Gilbert himself once described ''[[Princess Ida]]'' as a "a whimsical allegory ... a respectful operatic per-version"  of Tennyson's poem [].
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 == The original text ==
-''[[Princess Ida]]'' is musical comedy about a princess who founds a women's university to teach that women are superior to men, and the prince she had married as an infant, who sneaks into the university with friends to collect  his bride. When discovered, a war between the sexes breaks out.
+This is musical comedy about a princess who founds a women's university to teach that women are superior to men, and the prince she had married as an infant, who sneaks into the university with friends to collect  his bride. When discovered, a war between the sexes breaks out.
 It was first performed at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884 and had 246 performances.
-The book for ''[[Princess Ida]]'' was based on one of Gilbert's earlier plays, ''[[The Princess]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(W._S._Gilbert_play)], which is a blank verse farcical work, in five scenes with music, first produced at the Olympic Theatre in London on 8 January 1870.
+The book for ''[[Princess Ida]]'' was based on one of Gilbert's earlier plays, '''''[[The Princess]]'''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(W._S._Gilbert_play)], which is a blank verse farcical work, in five scenes with music, first produced at the Olympic Theatre in London on 8 January 1870.
-Gilbert's play had in turn been based on ''[[The Princess]]'' (1847)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)], a narrative poem (styled "A medley") by Alfred Lord Tennyson ()[]. Gilbert himself once described ''[[Princess Ida]]'' as a "a whimsical allegory ... a respectful operatic per-version"  of Tennyson's poem [].
+Gilbert's play had in turn been based on '''''[[The Princess]]''''' (1847)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)], a narrative poem (styled "A medley") by Alfred Lord Tennyson ()[]. Gilbert himself once described ''[[Princess Ida]]'' as a "a whimsical allegory ... a respectful operatic per-version"  of Tennyson's poem [].
 ==Translations and adaptations==