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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
 
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Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900'' (Volume 4), Cambridge University Press: p. 420[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=mgSZjOrtHZgC&pg=PA420&lpg=PA420&dq=State+Secrets,+or+The+Tailor+of+Tamworth%5D%5D%27%27+is+a+play+by+Wilks&source=bl&ots=yYLs3DwJCs&sig=ACfU3U0Dmtj-qWJYn8WSneuJNiOqn1aM6Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp7MSE66_pAhW1VBUIHa0xB_sQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=State%20Secrets%2C%20or%20The%20Tailor%20of%20Tamworth%5D%5D''%20is%20a%20play%20by%20Wilks&f=false]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.78.
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.78.

Revision as of 05:05, 13 May 2020

State Secrets, or The Tailor of Tamworth is a burletta by Thomas Egerton Wilks ()[].

The original text

First performed at the Surrey Theatre, London on 12 September 1836. Published by Dicks (no 914), Duncombe (Vol XXIII), and Lacy (Vol LIII).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Produced as State Secrets, or The Tailor of Tamworth by Sefton Parry on 23 February in the The Cape Town Theatre in Harrington Street , with Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime (Buckstone). A song by Montague Smythson and a dance by Lizzie Powell served as interlude. For Jane Lomax, Thomas Baines created "beautiful new scenery representing a Snow Storm, the first of its kind attempted here", according to the Cape Town publicity. Despite it all the evening was not well attended.

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. A History of English Drama 1660-1900 (Volume 4), Cambridge University Press: p. 420%20is%20a%20play%20by%20Wilks&f=false

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.78.


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