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''[[ A Life of Pleasure]]'' is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris] | ''[[ A Life of Pleasure]]'' is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris] | ||
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First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess's Theatre where it ran until February 1894. | First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess's Theatre where it ran until February 1894. | ||
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:26, 2 July 2020
A Life of Pleasure is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[1] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[2]
Contents
The original text
First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess's Theatre where it ran until February 1894.
Translations and adaptations
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.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris
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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