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| − | Facsimile version of the 1847 Samuel French edition, The [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031216057&view=1up&seq=6] | + | Facsimile version of the 1847 [[Samuel French]] edition, The [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031216057&view=1up&seq=6] |
[[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 1932. (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 1932. (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. | + | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.60, 65 |
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | ||
Revision as of 06:39, 25 November 2019
The Jacobite is a comic drama in two acts by J.R. Planché (1796-1880)[1].
First performed in in 1847, opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, on 13 June, then moved to The Olympic Theatre with a new cast. It was also played on Broadway in the same year.
Published in Dick's Standard Plays (London, 1847?), by Thomas Hailes Lacy (as Lacy's Acting Edition No. 201, 1847?) and in New York by Samuel French & Son and by William Taylor and Son (The Minor Drama no XIX) in 1847.
1857: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, by Sefton Parry and his company on 17 December, with Family Jars (Lunn) as afterpiece, with a musical interlude by the brass band of the Cape Royal Rifles and a "Highland Fling" by Mr Gough. The evening was in aid of the "Indian Relief Fund".
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1847 Samuel French edition, The Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]
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 1932. (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: pp.60, 65
Go to ESAT Bibliography
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