Difference between revisions of "Nine Points of the Law"
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== |
Revision as of 05:45, 6 November 2020
Nine Points of the Law is a comedy in one act by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1].
In his index, F.C.L. Bosman lists the play as Nine Points to the Law.
Contents
The original text
Published a number of times, e.g. by Samuel French as Issue 680 of 19th century British drama, by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1859 (as Volume 40 of Lacy's Acting Edition)and as Issue 69 of Modern English Comic Theatre by H. Hartung, 1863
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company as Nine Points of the Law on 7 December, with The Chimney Corner (Craven)
Sources
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Nine_Points_of_the_Law.html?id=k4jDwgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor
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.322, 363
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