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''[[Le Bossu]]'' ("The Hunchback") is a French play by Paul Féval
 
 
 
''[[The Duke's Motto]]'' (Feval/Brougham)
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Adapted in English as ''[[The Duke's Motto, or I Am Here!]]'', a play in a prologue and four acts by John Brougham and first presented with that title at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Saturday 10 January 1863. (Also found as ''[[The Duke's Motto]]'')
 
 
 
Published by C. Whiting in 1870 as ''[[The Duke's Motto]]'', and called "a romantic drama in three acts, and a prologue", credited to John Brougham but "Adapted By, and the Property Of, Charles Fechter".
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s  first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Duke_s_Motto_A_Romantic_Drama_In_Thr.html?id=bCW5IBEwHkUC&redir_esc=y
 
 
 
http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Charles-Fechter-in-'The-Duke's-Motto'-126159.htm
 
 
 
 
 
[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|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.325
 
 
 
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