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''[[The Royal Brothers]]''
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''[[The Royal Brothers]]'' is a play by an unknown author.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
A play about the two princes imprisoned in the Tower and executed by Richard III.  
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Said to be a play about the two princes imprisoned in the Tower and executed by Richard III, the Souyth African performance by a Catholic school in Cape Town may possibly have been nothing more than a performance of the tower scene from Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]''.  
  
First performed
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1866: Performed by the pupils of [[St Mary's Convent School]], Cape Town, on 13 July, with ''[[The Irish Lion]]'' (Buckstone)
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1866: Performed as ''[[The Royal Brothers]]'' by the pupils of [[St Mary's Convent School]], Cape Town, on 13 July, with ''[[The Irish Lion]]'' (Buckstone)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:50, 30 April 2020

The Royal Brothers is a play by an unknown author.

The original text

Said to be a play about the two princes imprisoned in the Tower and executed by Richard III, the Souyth African performance by a Catholic school in Cape Town may possibly have been nothing more than a performance of the tower scene from Shakespeare's Richard III.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as The Royal Brothers by the pupils of St Mary's Convent School, Cape Town, on 13 July, with The Irish Lion (Buckstone)

Sources

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.271

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