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''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play by Oxenford ()[].

1868: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 6 January as part of a benefit for [[T.H. Paul]], with Brough's [[burlesque]] version of Euripides's''[[Medea]]'' and songs and dances.

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-''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play in two acts by John Oxenford (1812-1877)[].
+''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play in two acts by John Oxenford (1812-1877)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oxenford].
 ==The original text==
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 Facsimile version of the 1858 text by Lacy, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b287309&view=1up&seq=5]
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.231-2

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-''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play in two acts by John Oxenford ()[].
+''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play in two acts by John Oxenford (1812-1877)[].
 ==The original text==
-Described as "a serio-comic drama in two acts", the play was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, on 2 December, 1858 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1859.
+Described as "a serio-comic drama in two acts", the play was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, on 2 December, 1858 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in London and in New York by  R.M. De Witt (1858/9?).
 ==Translations and adaptations==
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 == Sources ==
-https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b287309&view=1up&seq=5
+Facsimile version of the 1858 text by Lacy, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b287309&view=1up&seq=5]
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.231-2

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 ==The original text==
-Published as ''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' and described as "a serio-comic drama in two acts"
+Described as "a serio-comic drama in two acts", the play was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, on 2 December, 1858 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1859.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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-''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play by Oxenford ()[].
+''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' is a play in two acts by John Oxenford ()[].
 ==The original text==
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 == Sources ==
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.231-2

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	==The original text==		==The original text==
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		+	Published as ''[[The Porter's Knot]]'' and described as "a serio-comic drama in two acts"

	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==

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 == Sources ==
-[[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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.231-2
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	1868: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 6 January as part of a benefit for [[T.H. Paul]], with Brough's [[burlesque]] version of Euripides's ''[[Medea]]'' and songs and dances.		1868: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 6 January as part of a benefit for [[T.H. Paul]], with Brough's [[burlesque]] version of Euripides's ''[[Medea]]'' and songs and dances.
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		+	==The original text==
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		+	==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	== Performance history in South Africa ==
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		+	1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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		+	== Sources ==
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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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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		+	[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
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		+	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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−	1868: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 6 January as part of a benefit for [[T.H. Paul]], with Brough's [[burlesque]] version of Euripides's''[[Medea]]'' and songs and dances.	+	1868: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 6 January as part of a benefit for [[T.H. Paul]], with Brough's [[burlesque]] version of Euripides's ''[[Medea]]'' and songs and dances.