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A play by Mrs Centlivre, performed by the [[Naval Amateur Company]] in Simonstown on Saturday 14 January, 1826.  
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One of the most successful comedies of intrigue of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, originally entitled [[The Busie Body]] and written  by Susanna Centlivre (1667?-1723). Originally opened at the Drury Lane Theatre in London on May 12, 1709, and seems to have reached its greatest popularity in England and its colonies in the middle and late eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century, while enjoying a similar place of importance in the stage history of America in the  nineteenth century.
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Performed in South Africa by the [[Naval Amateur Company]] in Simonstown on Saturday 14 January, 1826.  
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: p 230
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: p 230
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16740/16740-h/16740-h.htm
  
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

Revision as of 05:23, 31 July 2013

One of the most successful comedies of intrigue of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, originally entitled The Busie Body and written by Susanna Centlivre (1667?-1723). Originally opened at the Drury Lane Theatre in London on May 12, 1709, and seems to have reached its greatest popularity in England and its colonies in the middle and late eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century, while enjoying a similar place of importance in the stage history of America in the nineteenth century.

Performed in South Africa by the Naval Amateur Company in Simonstown on Saturday 14 January, 1826.


Sources

Bosman, 1928: p 230

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16740/16740-h/16740-h.htm

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