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| − | Facsimile version of a review in ''The Aldine Magazine'', Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NBwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=The+Queen%27s+Horse+burletta&source=bl&ots=u8u0G2y8JD&sig=_YnAoPLCS2XDQUPy3itSzOqPcx4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j2I8Vc6jEI6O7AaH1YHABw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=The%20Queen's%20Horse%20burletta&f=false] | + | Facsimile version of a review in ''The Aldine Magazine'', Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. ([[Google eBook]])[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NBwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=The+Queen%27s+Horse+burletta&source=bl&ots=u8u0G2y8JD&sig=_YnAoPLCS2XDQUPy3itSzOqPcx4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j2I8Vc6jEI6O7AaH1YHABw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=The%20Queen's%20Horse%20burletta&f=false] |
http://imslp.org/wiki/Le_brasseur_de_Preston_(Adam,_Adolphe) | http://imslp.org/wiki/Le_brasseur_de_Preston_(Adam,_Adolphe) | ||
| − | http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Honan%2C%20Michael%20Burke | + | Online Books by Michael Burke Honan, ''[[The Online Books Page]]''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Honan%2C%20Michael%20Burke] |
| − | http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100410531 | + | Facsimile version of the 1839 text, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100410531] |
| − | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9_bibliography | + | James Planché bibliography, [[Wikipedia]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9_bibliography] |
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 407-8, | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 407-8, | ||
Latest revision as of 05:58, 12 June 2023
The Queen's Horse is a burletta in one act by journalist Michael Burke Honan (floreat circa 1830-1840)[1] and James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[2]
Contents
The original French text
According to a reviewer in The Aldine Magazine this was a "free and compressed translation of Le Brasseur de Preston", an opéra-comique[3] in three acts, composed by Adolphe Adam (1803—1856) to a libretto by Adolphe de Leuven (1800-1884) and Léon-Lévy Brunswick (1805-1859), and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse on 31 October, 1838. It was published by in Paris by J. Delahante, n.d.(ca.1838).
The original English text
The English one-act version by Honan and Planché was first performed at Madame Vestris's Royal Olympic Theatre on 3 December, 1838 and published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1839.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1854: Performed on 5 June in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players and some local Amateurs, with a cast which included Mrs Arlington and Captain Hall. The other plays presented were The Rent Day (Jerrold) and The Spitalfields Weaver (Bayly).
Sources
Facsimile version of a review in The Aldine Magazine, Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. (Google eBook)[4]
http://imslp.org/wiki/Le_brasseur_de_Preston_(Adam,_Adolphe)
Online Books by Michael Burke Honan, The Online Books Page[5]
Facsimile version of the 1839 text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[6]
James Planché bibliography, Wikipedia[7]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [8]: pp. 407-8,
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