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''[[Nothing Venture, Nothing Win]]'' is a comic drama in two acts by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[].
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''[[Nothing Venture, Nothing Win]]'' is a comic drama in two acts by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne].
  
 
Sometimes advertised as '''''[[Never Venture, Never Win]]''''' by producers/press? (See [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980: note 227 on p. 231).
 
Sometimes advertised as '''''[[Never Venture, Never Win]]''''' by producers/press? (See [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980: note 227 on p. 231).
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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
First performed at The Strand Theatre, London, on 5 April, 1858 and published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.
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First performed at The Strand Theatre, London, on 5 April, 1858 and published in London by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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1859: Performed by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 7 September, as prelude to ''[[Electra, or A New Electrical Light]]''  (Talfourd).  
 
1859: Performed by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 7 September, as prelude to ''[[Electra, or A New Electrical Light]]''  (Talfourd).  
  
1868: A play called ''[[Never Venture, Never Win]]'' is performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] in [[New Market Building]], Cape Town,  on 1 January as afterpiece to ''[[Harlequin Prince Perseus, or The Maid and the Monster]]'' (Anon.)
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1868: A play called ''[[Never Venture, Never Win]]'' is performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] in [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town,  on 1 January as afterpiece to ''[[Harlequin Prince Perseus, or The Maid and the Monster]]'' (Anon.)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
Facsimile version of the 1858 edition by T.H. Lacy, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=VthUAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]
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Facsimile version of the 1858 edition by [[T.H. Lacy]], Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=VthUAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.144-5, 231
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.144-5, 231

Latest revision as of 06:04, 3 November 2020

Nothing Venture, Nothing Win is a comic drama in two acts by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[1].

Sometimes advertised as Never Venture, Never Win by producers/press? (See F.C.L. Bosman, 1980: note 227 on p. 231).

The original text

First performed at The Strand Theatre, London, on 5 April, 1858 and published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed by the Cape Town Dramatic Club (and "several amateur gentlemen") in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 7 October, with Bombastes Furioso! (Rhodes). A benefit for the Eastern City.

1859: Performed by the Cape Town Dramatic Club in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 7 September, as prelude to Electra, or A New Electrical Light (Talfourd).

1868: A play called Never Venture, Never Win is performed by the Le Roy and Duret Company in Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 1 January as afterpiece to Harlequin Prince Perseus, or The Maid and the Monster (Anon.)

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1858 edition by T.H. Lacy, Google E-book[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.144-5, 231

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