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| − | A one-act farce by Benjamin Webster.
| + | #REDIRECT[[Ma Femme et Mon Parapluie]] |
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| − | Adapted from the French play ''Ma Femme et mon Parapluie'', by M. Laurencin (pseud of Paul Aimé Chapelle). First performed in French at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 23 June 1834 and published by Marchant (Paris) in the 1835.
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| − | The English text first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the author, and published 1837.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | Performed, (possibly under the title ''[[My New Wife and my Old Umbrella]]'', and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the [[Garrison Players]] ( a group locally known as [[Captain Hall's Company]]) in Cape Town on 8 May 1850, as an afterpiece to ''[[Richelieu, or The Conspiracy]]'' (Bulwer-Lytton).
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/My_Young_Wife_and_My_Old_Umbrella_A_Farc.html?id=G28ZMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
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| − | Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2659511]
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| − | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster,_Benjamin_Nottingham_(DNB00)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 398
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| − | Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
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| − | == Return to ==
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| − | Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 H|H]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
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| − | Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
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