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''[[Judah]]'' is a play by William Gillette (William Hooker Gillette, 1853-1937)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette].
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''[[Judah]]'' is a play in three acts by Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Arthur_Jones].
  
 
==The original text==
 
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A play set in the American Civil War, it tells of Brigade Surgeon Fielding who falls in love with a Southern belle when Federal troops capture a Confederate city.  
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A play about a fanatical Welsh clergyman named "Judah Llewellyn" who falls in love with a young girl called "Vashti Dethic", who - urged by her father - has persuaded people she can cure them through fasting and faith-healing.
  
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First performed on 22 February, 1886, in the Criterion Theatre, Brooklyn, New York and published by Samuel French Ltd. in 1898.
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First performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on 21 May, 1890 and published by Macmillan and Company in 1894.
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According to the entry on William Gillette in [[Wikipedia]], this Civil War drama "''was a major step toward modern theater, in that it abandoned many of the crude devices of 19th century melodrama and introduced realism into the sets, costumes, props, and sound effects. It was produced at a time when the British had a very low opinion of American art in any form, and it was the first wholly American play with a wholly American theme to be a critical and commercial success on British stages''."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette]
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
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Filmed in 1920, directed by Donald Crisp and based on the 1886 play. (The film is apparently lost.)
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
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1892: Performed in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.
  
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1892: Performed in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August. It is uncertain which text was used in this case.
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1897: Performed in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, by the visiting actor [[Edward Sass]] and his company, under the management of the [[Wheeler Company]], as part of a season of three plays that opened in January.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette
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Facsimile version of the 1894 MacMillan text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://archive.org/details/judahaplayinthr00jonegoog/page/n3]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Arthur_Jones
  
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Held_by_the_Enemy_(film)
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Richard Foulkes. 1997. ''Church and Stage in Victorian England''. Cambridge University Press: pp.200-201[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=kfAKKd3oxI8C&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&dq=Judah+a+play+H.A.+Jones&source=bl&ots=Ywm98kIzZD&sig=ACfU3U2htcfJ43ZS_eipS3_-mTXUldhbsw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim9b_o18XlAhX6VBUIHayyAf0Q6AEwBXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Judah%20a%20play%20H.A.%20Jones&f=false]
  
 
[[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.)
  
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.394-5
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.394-5, 405.
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
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Latest revision as of 06:16, 26 May 2020

Judah is a play in three acts by Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929)[1].

The original text

A play about a fanatical Welsh clergyman named "Judah Llewellyn" who falls in love with a young girl called "Vashti Dethic", who - urged by her father - has persuaded people she can cure them through fasting and faith-healing.

First performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on 21 May, 1890 and published by Macmillan and Company in 1894.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1892: Performed in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, by the visiting Emilie Bevan Comedy Company as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.

1897: Performed in the Opera House, Cape Town, by the visiting actor Edward Sass and his company, under the management of the Wheeler Company, as part of a season of three plays that opened in January.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1894 MacMillan text, The Internet Archive[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Arthur_Jones

Richard Foulkes. 1997. Church and Stage in Victorian England. Cambridge University Press: pp.200-201[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.394-5, 405.

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