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[[Jan Juta]]. 1972. ''Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa''. New York: Charles Scribner‟s
 
[[Jan Juta]]. 1972. ''Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa''. New York: Charles Scribner‟s
 
Sons: p.52.
 
Sons: p.52.
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''The Shakespearean International Yearbook'': Special section, South Africa, Volume 9
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edited by Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, [[Laurence Wright]][https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ZQ3LrE-Iy-kC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=The+Masque+of+the+Silver+Trees&source=bl&ots=OBdVb2xavV&sig=sMmojawsfsgLDK3gfhLPK7KJ7jM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMzLiZ2c3TAhXmC8AKHeH0ApYQ6AEIJzAB#v=onepage&q=The%20Masque%20of%20the%20Silver%20Trees&f=false]
  
 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Masque-Silver-Trees-Ren%C3%A9-Juta/dp/B0014TCAIG
 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Masque-Silver-Trees-Ren%C3%A9-Juta/dp/B0014TCAIG

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The Masque of the Silver Trees is an outdoor pageant composed by Réné Juta in 1909.

The original text

A neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance, it was inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910.

The text published by J.C. Juta and Co, 1909.

Sources

Peter Merrington, State of the Union: The "New Pageantry" and the Performance of Identity in North America and South Africa, 1908-1910, Journal of Literary Studies 15, nos. 1-2 (1999): 238-63.

Jan Juta. 1972. Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa. New York: Charles Scribner‟s Sons: p.52.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Special section, South Africa, Volume 9 edited by Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Laurence Wright[1]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Masque-Silver-Trees-Ren%C3%A9-Juta/dp/B0014TCAIG

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