Difference between revisions of "A Night Off"
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Revision as of 05:51, 24 December 2019
Der Raub der Sabinerinnen () is a German comedy by Franz von Schönthan (1849-1913)[1] and Paul von Schönthan (1853-1905)
Contents
The original text
Written in von 1883 and first performed in Stettin. Austria, in 1884.
Translations
Adapted into an English comedy in four acts called A Night Off, or a Page from Balzac by Augustin Daly ()[] and produced at Daly's Theatre, New York on 4 March, 1885. First printed, as manuscript only, for the author, by the press of the Globe Printing Company, Philadelphia, in 1885 and formally published in New York by Fitzgerald Publishing Company, c1897.
Performance history in South Africa
1900: Performed by the Herbert Flemming Company as part of an extended season in the Opera House, Cape Town.
Sources
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_und_Paul_von_Sch%C3%B6nthan
Facsimile version of the 1885 manuscript of the English text by Daly, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]
Facsimile version of the 1897 English text by Daly, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]
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.203-205
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