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''[[The Surgeon of Paris]]'' is a play by an unknown author.  
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''[[The Surgeon of Paris]]'' is an historical drama, in four acts, by J.S. Jones (Joseph Stevens Jones, 1809-1877)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stevens_Jones].  
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Also known as ''[[The Surgeon of Paris, or The Mask of the Huguenots]]''
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
by  ... Now first published. With casts of characters, and all the stage business.
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A play about the massacre of the Huguenots in Paris, it is the sequel to the same author's ''[[The Carpenter of Rouen]]''[http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/assets/docs/pdf/Vol04xvCarpenter.pdf].  
Imprint
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Boston, Mass. : William V. Spencer, 1856.
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First published by William V. Spencer, Boston, 1856.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
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1876: Performed on 3 August by the [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, at the time under the temporary management of [[C. Wilstone]]. The author not credited. Also played was ''[[My Turn Next]]'' (Williams).
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== Sources ==
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Facsimile version of the original published text, Google E-Book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=QTNBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  
1876: Performed on 3 August by the [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, at the time under the temporary management of [[C. Wilstone]]. Also played was ''[[My Turn Next]]'' (Willimas).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stevens_Jones
  
== Sources ==
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https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1984597
  
 
[[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.)

Latest revision as of 06:27, 17 June 2021

The Surgeon of Paris is an historical drama, in four acts, by J.S. Jones (Joseph Stevens Jones, 1809-1877)[1].

Also known as The Surgeon of Paris, or The Mask of the Huguenots

The original text

A play about the massacre of the Huguenots in Paris, it is the sequel to the same author's The Carpenter of Rouen[2].

First published by William V. Spencer, Boston, 1856.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed on 3 August by the Disney Roebuck's company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, at the time under the temporary management of C. Wilstone. The author not credited. Also played was My Turn Next (Williams).

Sources

Facsimile version of the original published text, Google E-Book[3]

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

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1984597

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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