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1860: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Charles Fraser]] and his company on 3 February (apparently "By desire").
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
 
  
 
Online Books by J. Palgrave Simpson,  ''[[The Online Books Page]]''[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Poor_Cousin_Walter.html?id=x5TQxQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
 
Online Books by J. Palgrave Simpson,  ''[[The Online Books Page]]''[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Poor_Cousin_Walter.html?id=x5TQxQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]

Revision as of 06:05, 5 March 2021

Poor Cousin Walter is a drama in one act by John Palgrave Simpson (1807-1887)[1]

The original text

Published in London by T.H. Lacy and by Samuel French as Issue 19 of French's acting edition

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, by Charles Fraser and his company on 3 February (apparently "By desire").

Sources

Online Books by J. Palgrave Simpson, The Online Books Page[2]

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

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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