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| + | * the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon_Mitchell], (''Becky Sharp'' (1899): a dramatization of Thackeray's ''Vanity Fair''). | ||
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| + | Not to be confused with the 1935 film [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Sharp]]. | ||
== The original text == | == The original text == | ||
Revision as of 15:08, 18 June 2026
Becky Sharp refers to:
- a one-act play by Oliver Conway
- the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell [1], (Becky Sharp (1899): a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair).
Not to be confused with the 1935 film [[2]].
Contents
The original text
Published in One-act Plays of Today edited by J.W. Marriott, 1924 [3].
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1902: Presented by Miss Kate Vaughan's Company at the Opera House, Cape Town in July, produced by Frank de Jong and Leonard Rayne.
1932: Presented by the Repertory Theatre Society, later known as the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society performed on 25 July 1932 with A Marriage Has Been Arranged and The Bride.
Sources
NELM: [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 61.
[4].
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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