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''[[Who's Who?, or The Double Imposture]]'' is a farce in two acts by John Poole ()[]
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==The original text==
 
 
 
 
 
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1816. Published by Whittingham and Arliss, London, in the same year.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
1871: Performed as ''[[Who's Who]]'' by a regimental "Dramatic Club" (the sources are unclear about the company, it was possibly an outflow of or affiliation with the [[Cape Town Institute and Club]]'s dramatic company) in the [[Theatre Royal, Main Barracks]], Cape Town, on 6 May, with ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' (Morton) and ''[[Sarah's Young Man]]'' (Suter).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1816 edition (2nd edition) of the text, Google E-Book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ZlQVAAAAQAAJ&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]]: p. 267
 
 
 
 
 
[[William Groom]]. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. ''Cape Illustrated Magazine'', 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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