Difference between revisions of "Dark Days"
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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| + | 1885: Performed as ''[[Dark Days]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[H.C. Sidney]] and the [[Sidney-Fiedler]] company. | ||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
| − | [[ | + | Facsimile version of the 1884 edition of the novel, The [[Internet Archive]] [https://archive.org/details/darkdaysbyhughc00farggoog/page/n20] |
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| + | Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=u9s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA613&lpg=PA613&dq=Le+Bal+Masqu%C3%A9+Arthur+H.+Ward&source=bl&ots=j085voK1qt&sig=LGxx1zWIPYzXgxyp-fvQSpGG8vM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFsaPmkITaAhXJ7xQKHVePC1kQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Le%20Bal%20Masqu%C3%A9%20Arthur%20H.%20Ward&f=false] | ||
[[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 1923. (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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | ||
| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. | + | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.381. |
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| + | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | ||
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| + | == Return to == | ||
| − | [[ | + | Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]] |
| + | Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]] | ||
| + | Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]] | ||
| − | + | Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants, carnivals and public performances]] | |
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| + | Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]] | ||
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Revision as of 05:45, 12 June 2019
Dark Days is a drama by Hugh Conway (pen name of Frederick John Fargus; 1847-1885)[1] and J.Comyns Carr (1849-1916)[2]
Contents
The original text
Based on Hugh Conway's novel of the same name, (first published in Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual of 1884), dramatized by Conway and Carr.
The dramatized version was performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on 26 September 1885. The text does not seem to have been published.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1885: Performed as Dark Days in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by H.C. Sidney and the Sidney-Fiedler company.
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1884 edition of the novel, The Internet Archive [3]
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[4]
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 1923. (Reprinted in 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: p.381.
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Return to
Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants, carnivals and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
Return to The ESAT Entries
Return to Main Page
