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''[[Le Bossu]]'' ("The Hunchback") is a French play by Paul Féval
 
 
 
''[[The Duke's Motto]]'' (Feval/Brougham)
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
The play is set in France during the early eighteenth century, and has a complicated and melodramatic plot that involves among other things a murdered duke, the rescue of his infant daughter by ‘a wild daredevil’, a villainous prince’s scheme to secure the child’s inheritance, his hunchbacked henchman, gypsies on the Spanish border, and an Irish soldier of fortune.
 
 
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Adapted in English as ''[[The Duke's Motto, or I Am Here!]]'', a play in a prologue and four acts by John Brougham and first presented with that title at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Saturday 10 January 1863, with Charles Fechter as leading actor.
 
 
 
Published by C. Whiting in 1870 as ''[[The Duke's Motto]]'', and called "a romantic drama in three acts, and a prologue", credited to John Brougham but "Adapted By, and the Property Of, Charles Fechter".
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s  first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Duke_s_Motto_A_Romantic_Drama_In_Thr.html?id=bCW5IBEwHkUC&redir_esc=y
 
 
 
http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Charles-Fechter-in-'The-Duke's-Motto'-126159.htm
 
 
 
 
 
[[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]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.325
 
 
 
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