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1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 22 September by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] with ''[[Don Juan]]'' (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's ''[[Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'').
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 11:26, 5 September 2019

The Queen of the Abruzzi is a drama in one act by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[]

The original text

Performed in the Adelhi Theatre, London on 8 June, 1846 and published by T.H. Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 22 September by the Le Roy and Duret Company with Don Juan (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82207987/

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press Archive[1]


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