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The Young Widow, or A Lesson for Lovers is a comic piece in one act by Thomas G. Rodwell ()[]
More often found simply as The Young Widow.
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1843 and Wallack's Theatre, New York, in 1855.
Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy (as Volume 22 of Lacy's acting edition), in New York by Samuel French (1857) and in Boston by William V. Spencer (Spencer's Boston Theatre no CLIX).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1868: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 4 May, with The Dowager (Mathews).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.233
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