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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | play ''[[Ma Femme et mon Parapluie]]'', by M. Laurencin (pseud of Paul Aimé Chapelle). First performed in French at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 23 June 1834 and published by Marchant (Paris) in the 1835.
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| − | The English text, adapted from the French by Benjamin Webster, was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the adaptor, and published 1837.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1850: Performed, (possibly under the title ''[[My New Wife and my Old Umbrella]]'', and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the [[Garrison Players]] (by a group locally known as [[Captain Hall's Company]]) in Cape Town on 8 May, as an afterpiece to ''[[Richelieu, or The Conspiracy]]'' (Bulwer-Lytton).
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| − | 1850: Repeated (by special request, and now cited under its proper title and correctly attributed to Webster) by [[Captain Hall's Company]]) in Cape Town on 29 May, as an afterpiece to ''[[The Lancers]]'' (Payne) and ''[[A Lover by Proxy! or My Daughter Sir!]]'' (Planché).
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/My_Young_Wife_and_My_Old_Umbrella_A_Farc.html?id=G28ZMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
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| − | Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2659511]
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| − | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster,_Benjamin_Nottingham_(DNB00)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 398
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| − | Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
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| − | == Return to ==
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| − | Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 H|H]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
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| − | Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
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