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Revision as of 16:55, 27 August 2017
Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Curse is melodrama by Edward Stirling
Also found, in some productions and sources as Jane Lomax, or The Mother's Crime or Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime or simply referred to as Jane Lomax.
Contents
The original text
Based on Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime, the sensational 1838 novel by Horace Smith, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1838.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1860: Produced by Sefton Parry on 1 March in the The Cape Town Theatre in Harrington Street as Jane Lomax, with An Alarming Sacrifice () and La Yolta Arragonaise (a dance by Lizzie Powell) as interlude.
Sources
Facsimile version of the novel, Google E-book[1]
http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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