The Floating Beacon, or The Norwegian Wreckers - Revision history

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	Larry Stephen Clifton. 1993. ''The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre''. Popular Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=oQ5VhsjD5yoC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=The+Inchcape+Bell,+or+The+Dumb+Sailor+Boy+of+the+Rocks&source=bl&ots=grM-nuWDki&sig=w8suAz0jP3BVoYKXRdb2-EJHqWU&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYtLaJno3KAhVH1hQKHZHuAFwQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=The%20Inchcape%20Bell%2C%20or%20The%20Dumb%20Sailor%20Boy%20of%20the%20Rocks&f=false]		Larry Stephen Clifton. 1993. ''The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre''. Popular Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=oQ5VhsjD5yoC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=The+Inchcape+Bell,+or+The+Dumb+Sailor+Boy+of+the+Rocks&source=bl&ots=grM-nuWDki&sig=w8suAz0jP3BVoYKXRdb2-EJHqWU&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYtLaJno3KAhVH1hQKHZHuAFwQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=The%20Inchcape%20Bell%2C%20or%20The%20Dumb%20Sailor%20Boy%20of%20the%20Rocks&f=false]
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		+	[[William Groom]]. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. ''Cape Illustrated Magazine'', 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

	[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 226-7		[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 226-7

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 ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Norwegian Wreckers]]''  is a nautical melodrama in two acts by Edward Fitzball (1792–1873)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fitzball].
-The play is credited to  '''Edward Ball''' in some versions.
+The play is credited to  '''Edward Ball''' in some versions and in a preface to the published text he is also referred to as "Mr Ball".
 Also found as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or Norwegian Wreckers]]'',   ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'' and in shortened form as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]''.
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 Fitzball's own play was first performed to great success under the original the title of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Norwegian Wreckers]]'' in the Surrey Theatre, London, on 19 April 1824. The text was printed by and for J. Lowndes in 1824.
-In 1840 published in New York as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]'' by Turner and Fischer and later (in 1850?) as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'', by T.H. Lacy,  London,  as Vol 75 of Lacy's acting plays.
+In 1840 published in New York as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]'', and credited to "Edward Ball", by Turner and Fisher and later (in 1850?) as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'' (credited to "Edward Fitzball"), by T.H. Lacy,  London,  as Vol 75 of Lacy's acting plays.
 == Translations and adaptations ==

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 Fitzball's own play was first performed to great success under the original the title of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Norwegian Wreckers]]'' in the Surrey Theatre, London, on 19 April 1824. The text was printed by and for J. Lowndes in 1824.
 In 1840 published in New York as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]'' by Turner and Fischer and later (in 1850?) as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'', by T.H. Lacy,  London,  as Vol 75 of Lacy's acting plays.
 == Translations and adaptations ==

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	1833: Performed in Cape Town in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[All the World's a Stage]] (as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]'') on 13 July, with ''[[The Six Simpletons, or The Press Gang]]'' (a "ballet dance"), ''[[The First of April]]'' (Boaden) and a new pantomime, ''[[Clown and Goose]]'', performed by Mr [[Charles West]].		1833: Performed in Cape Town in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[All the World's a Stage]] (as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]'') on 13 July, with ''[[The Six Simpletons, or The Press Gang]]'' (a "ballet dance"), ''[[The First of April]]'' (Boaden) and a new pantomime, ''[[Clown and Goose]]'', performed by Mr [[Charles West]].
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		+	1858: Performed as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]'' in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company, as part of his new season.

	1862: Performed in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Keiskama Hoek, on October 18 by the [[Amateurs of the Band]] as ''[[The Floating Beacon or Norwegian Wreckers]]'' with a cast consisting of [[F. Girton]] (Angerstoff, Captain of the Beacon), [[J. F. Gay]] (Maurico, his companion), [[T. Patterson]] (Ormoloff, his companion), [[T. Smith]] (Weignstadt, a fisherman), [[J. M'Kechnie]] (Frederick, a supposed orphan), [[W. Allan]] (Jack Junk, a British sailor), [[J. Davies]] (Mariette, woman of the Beacon), [[P. Mulrennan]] (Christine, Weignstadt's daughter). Also presented was ''[[Wanted, 1 000 Spirited Young Milliners For the Gold Diggings!]]'' (Coyne).		1862: Performed in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Keiskama Hoek, on October 18 by the [[Amateurs of the Band]] as ''[[The Floating Beacon or Norwegian Wreckers]]'' with a cast consisting of [[F. Girton]] (Angerstoff, Captain of the Beacon), [[J. F. Gay]] (Maurico, his companion), [[T. Patterson]] (Ormoloff, his companion), [[T. Smith]] (Weignstadt, a fisherman), [[J. M'Kechnie]] (Frederick, a supposed orphan), [[W. Allan]] (Jack Junk, a British sailor), [[J. Davies]] (Mariette, woman of the Beacon), [[P. Mulrennan]] (Christine, Weignstadt's daughter). Also presented was ''[[Wanted, 1 000 Spirited Young Milliners For the Gold Diggings!]]'' (Coyne).

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 Fitzball's own play was first performed to great success under the original the title of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Norwegian Wreckers]]'' in the Surrey Theatre, London, on 19 April 1824. The text was printed by and for J. Lowndes in 1824.
-Later published, now as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'', in London by T.H. Lacy in 1850(?) as Vol 75 of Lacy's acting plays.
 == Translations and adaptations ==

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	Facsimile version of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'' (Lacy edition), [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112070130361&view=1up&seq=8]		Facsimile version of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'' (Lacy edition), [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112070130361&view=1up&seq=8]
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	Frederick Burwick. 2015. ''British Drama of the Industrial Revolution''. Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=wNMmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=The+Floating+Beacon,+or+The+Norwegian+Wreckers&source=bl&ots=Yv397eZ_gL&sig=nvPbvGtiYi1yExO0UrIbTrpTsTo&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUv8qF5YzKAhXDPxQKHSfaAj8Q6AEIPTAF#v=onepage&q=The%20Floating%20Beacon%2C%20or%20The%20Norwegian%20Wreckers&f=false]		Frederick Burwick. 2015. ''British Drama of the Industrial Revolution''. Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=wNMmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=The+Floating+Beacon,+or+The+Norwegian+Wreckers&source=bl&ots=Yv397eZ_gL&sig=nvPbvGtiYi1yExO0UrIbTrpTsTo&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUv8qF5YzKAhXDPxQKHSfaAj8Q6AEIPTAF#v=onepage&q=The%20Floating%20Beacon%2C%20or%20The%20Norwegian%20Wreckers&f=false]

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 The play is credited to  '''Edward Ball''' in some versions.
-Also found as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or Norwegian Wreckers]]'',   and in shortened form as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]''. In his "Sakeregister" (Index), historian [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980) has the additional title  of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'', also ascribed to Fitzball - though in the '''text''' of his book it is simply called  ''[[The Floating Beacon]]''.
+Also found as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or Norwegian Wreckers]]'',   ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'' and in shortened form as ''[[The Floating Beacon]]''.
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 According to the author, the text was apparently influenced by a summary he had read of ''[[The Light Tower]]'', a German tragedy by an unnamed author (Burwick, 2015: pp. 220-221)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=wNMmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=The+Floating+Beacon,+or+The+Norwegian+Wreckers&source=bl&ots=Yv397eZ_gL&sig=nvPbvGtiYi1yExO0UrIbTrpTsTo&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUv8qF5YzKAhXDPxQKHSfaAj8Q6AEIPTAF#v=onepage&q=The%20Floating%20Beacon%2C%20or%20The%20Norwegian%20Wreckers&f=false]. The text he is referring to was most probably ''[[Der Leuchtturm]]'' ("The lighthouse", 1821) a so-called ("Fate-tragedy") by Christoph Ernst von Houwald (1778-1845)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Ernst_von_Houwald]
-Fitzball's own play was first performed to great success in the Surrey Theatre, London, on 19 April 1824. The text was printed by and for J. Lowndes in 1824.
+Fitzball's own play was first performed to great success under the original the title of ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Norwegian Wreckers]]'' in the Surrey Theatre, London, on 19 April 1824. The text was printed by and for J. Lowndes in 1824.
+Later published, now as ''[[The Floating Beacon, or The Wild Woman of the Wreck]]'', in London by T.H. Lacy in 1850(?) as Vol 75 of Lacy's acting plays.
 == Translations and adaptations ==
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 http://www.worldcat.org/title/floating-beacon-or-the-norwegian-wreckers-a-melo-drama-in-two-acts/oclc/9224696
 Frederick Burwick. 2015. ''British Drama of the Industrial Revolution''. Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=wNMmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=The+Floating+Beacon,+or+The+Norwegian+Wreckers&source=bl&ots=Yv397eZ_gL&sig=nvPbvGtiYi1yExO0UrIbTrpTsTo&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUv8qF5YzKAhXDPxQKHSfaAj8Q6AEIPTAF#v=onepage&q=The%20Floating%20Beacon%2C%20or%20The%20Norwegian%20Wreckers&f=false]