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''[[Mr Barnes of New York]]'' is a play by Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Clavering_Gunter], (Bosman has the author as Hal Collier-Edwards ()[]. | ''[[Mr Barnes of New York]]'' is a play by Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Clavering_Gunter], (Bosman has the author as Hal Collier-Edwards ()[]. | ||
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| − | The play is based on | + | The play is based on ''[[Mr Barnes of New York]]'', a popular novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Clavering_Gunter], published in 1887 in New York by the Home Publishing Company. It tells of the European travels and adventures of Burton H. Barnes, including a romance with an English girl and involvement in a Corsican vendetta. |
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| + | Gunter, himself a playwright, adapted the novel as a stage play and made its debut in 1888 at the Broadway Theatre in New York, opening on October 15 and playing through to 1 December. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:44, 18 April 2020
Mr Barnes of New York is a play by Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[1], (Bosman has the author as Hal Collier-Edwards ()[].
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The original text
The play is based on Mr Barnes of New York, a popular novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[2], published in 1887 in New York by the Home Publishing Company. It tells of the European travels and adventures of Burton H. Barnes, including a romance with an English girl and involvement in a Corsican vendetta.
Gunter, himself a playwright, adapted the novel as a stage play and made its debut in 1888 at the Broadway Theatre in New York, opening on October 15 and playing through to 1 December.
Translations and adaptations
Two silent film versions were also made of the novel, one in 1914 and another in 1922.
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Barnes_of_New_York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Clavering_Gunter
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.391
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