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''[[The Court Secret]]'' is a tragicomedy written by James Shirley (1596–1666)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shirley].

==The original text==

The play as an index of the social anxieties and stresses of England at the crisis point of 1642, suggesting the conflict "between royalty and the rest," between the demands of royalist absolutism and the urges of ordinary humanity at the start of the English Civil War.

Though published in 1653, the play was never acted in its own time, though it was intended to be produced at the Blackfriars Theatre. First staged during the Restoration era only, by the King's Company at their Bridge Street theatre.

==Translations and adaptations==

A rehearsal of the play forms one of the three thematic threads in [[Deon Opperman]]'s metadrama ''[[We All Fall Down]]'' (1988).

== Performance history in South Africa ==

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== Sources ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Secret

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shirley

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Selected scenes from Shirley's play performed in the firt production of ''[[We All Fall Down]]'' by [[Bold Productions]] and [[Diane Kramer]] in the [[Baxter Theatre]], Cape Town. '''(See the entry on Opperman's play for details)'''.
+: Selected scenes from Shirley's play performed as part of the first production of ''[[We All Fall Down]]'' by [[Bold Productions]] and [[Diane Kramer]] in the [[Baxter Theatre]], Cape Town. '''(See the entry on Opperman's play for details)'''.
 == Sources ==

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: ''[[We All Fall Down]]'' produced by [[Bold Productions]] and [[Diane Kramer]] in the [[Baxter Theatre]], directed and designed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]]. (See the entry on Opperman's play for details).
+: Selected scenes from Shirley's play performed in the firt production of ''[[We All Fall Down]]'' by [[Bold Productions]] and [[Diane Kramer]] in the [[Baxter Theatre]], Cape Town. '''(See the entry on Opperman's play for details)'''.
 == Sources ==