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The Rightful Heir by "Der. F. la Yar"

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Satj: /* The Rightful Heir by Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton] */

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The Rightful Heir by Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton]

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-Probably a [[burlesque]] of the Bulwer Lytton play, it was created/written by "[[Der. F. la Yar]]" (pseudonym based on a for [[Alfred Ray]], a British soldier stationed at Cape Town in the 1860s. The piece also known as '''''[[The Rightful Heir. The Dead Hand and the Hour of One]]'''''
+Probably a [[burlesque]] of the Bulwer Lytton play, it was created/written by "[[Der. F. la Yar]]" (pseudonym based on an anagram for [[Alfred Ray]], a British soldier stationed at Cape Town in the 1860s). The piece also known as '''''[[The Rightful Heir. The Dead Hand and the Hour of One]]'''''
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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-This is a drama in five acts,  a substantially rewritten version of Lytton's own play '''''[[The Sea Captain]]''''' (or '''''[[The Sea Captain,  or The Birthright]]''''') of 1839, which had been inspired by  Alexandre Dumas's novel ''Le Capitaine Paul'' (1838)[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15574/pg15574.html]. Originally performed with a modicum of success by Macready under the management of Benjamin Webster and published by Saunders and Otley in 1839, the play was substantially rewritten by Bulwer Lytton after the initial run. After languishing in unperformed for a number of years, it was finally performed under the new title in the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 3 October, 1868 and published the same year .
+This is a drama in five acts,  a substantially rewritten version of Lytton's own play '''''[[The Sea Captain]]''''' (or '''''[[The Sea Captain,  or The Birthright]]''''') of 1839, which had been inspired by  Alexandre Dumas's novel ''Le Capitaine Paul'' (1838)[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15574/pg15574.html]. Originally performed with a modicum of success by Macready under the management of Benjamin Webster and published by Saunders and Otley in 1839, the play was substantially rewritten by Bulwer Lytton after the initial run. After languishing in unperformed for a number of years, it was finally produced under the new title in the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 3 October, 1868 and published the same year.
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 ==The original text==
-This is a drama in five acts,  a substantially rewritten version of Lytton's own play '''''[[The Sea Captain]]''''' (or '''''[[The Sea Captain,  or The Birthright]]''''') of 1839, which had been inspired by  Alexandre Dumas's novel ''Le Capitaine Paul'' (1838)[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15574/pg15574.html]. Originally performed with a modicum of success by Macready under the management of Benjamin Webster, the play was substantially rewritten by Bulwer Lytton after the initial run. After languishing in unperformed for a number of years, it was finally performed under the new title in the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 3 October, 1868 and published the same year .
+This is a drama in five acts,  a substantially rewritten version of Lytton's own play '''''[[The Sea Captain]]''''' (or '''''[[The Sea Captain,  or The Birthright]]''''') of 1839, which had been inspired by  Alexandre Dumas's novel ''Le Capitaine Paul'' (1838)[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15574/pg15574.html]. Originally performed with a modicum of success by Macready under the management of Benjamin Webster and published by Saunders and Otley in 1839, the play was substantially rewritten by Bulwer Lytton after the initial run. After languishing in unperformed for a number of years, it was finally performed under the new title in the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 3 October, 1868 and published the same year .
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==The original text==
-Probably a [[burlesque]] of the Bulwer Lytton play, it was created/written by "[[Der. F. la Yar]]" (pseudonym based on a for [[Alfred Ray]], a British soldier stationed at Cape Town in the 1860s. The piece also known as ''[[The Rightful Heir. The Dead Hand and the Hour of One]]''
+Probably a [[burlesque]] of the Bulwer Lytton play, it was created/written by "[[Der. F. la Yar]]" (pseudonym based on a for [[Alfred Ray]], a British soldier stationed at Cape Town in the 1860s. The piece also known as '''''[[The Rightful Heir. The Dead Hand and the Hour of One]]'''''
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==The original text==
-This is a drama in five acts,  a substantially rewritten version of Lytton's own play ''[[The Sea Captain]]'' (or '''''[[The Sea Captain,  or The Birthright]]''''') of 1839, which had been inspired by  Alexandre Dumas's novel ''Le Capitaine Paul'' (1838)[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15574/pg15574.html]. Originally performed with a modicum of success by Macready under the management of Benjamin Webster, the play was substantially rewritten by Bulwer Lytton after the initial run. After languishing in unperformed for a number of years, it was finally performed under the new title in the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 3 October, 1868 and published the same year .
+This is a drama in five acts,  a substantially rewritten version of Lytton's own play '''''[[The Sea Captain]]''''' (or '''''[[The Sea Captain,  or The Birthright]]''''') of 1839, which had been inspired by  Alexandre Dumas's novel ''Le Capitaine Paul'' (1838)[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15574/pg15574.html]. Originally performed with a modicum of success by Macready under the management of Benjamin Webster, the play was substantially rewritten by Bulwer Lytton after the initial run. After languishing in unperformed for a number of years, it was finally performed under the new title in the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 3 October, 1868 and published the same year .
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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	Facsimile version of the 1875 edition of Bulwer Lytton text of ''[[The Rightful Heir]]'', ''[[Hathi Trust Digital Library]]''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035141889&view=1up&seq=3]		Facsimile version of the 1875 edition of Bulwer Lytton text of ''[[The Rightful Heir]]'', ''[[Hathi Trust Digital Library]]''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035141889&view=1up&seq=3]
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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.)		[[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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 = Sources =
-Facsimile version of the 1875 edition of Bulwer Lytton text, ''[[Hathi Trust Digital Library]]''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035141889&view=1up&seq=3]
+Facsimile version of the 1875 edition of Bulwer Lytton text of ''[[The Rightful Heir]]'', ''[[Hathi Trust Digital Library]]''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035141889&view=1up&seq=3]
 [[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.)