Difference between revisions of "To Paris and Back for Five Pounds"
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First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 5 February, 1853 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy as Volume 9 of Lacy's acting edition. Also in Issue 466 of 19th century British drama, Issue 43 of French's American drama. | First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 5 February, 1853 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy as Volume 9 of Lacy's acting edition. Also in Issue 466 of 19th century British drama, Issue 43 of French's American drama. | ||
| − | While the play is normally attributed to J.M. Morton[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/To_Paris_and_Back_for_Five_Pounds.html?id=QfcmtAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y], a recent Google search also brought up a version attributed to "C.A.F. Wood"[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/To_Paris_and_Back_for_Five_Pounds.html?id=VRvMsgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y] or, in another entry, to C.A.F. Wood, J. George Moore, James Thomas Gooderham Rodwell, John Maddison Morton, Samuel D. Johnson, Thomas Haynes Bayly, '''AND''' Thomas Morton[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/To_Paris_and_Back_for_Five_Pounds.html?id=xMkltAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]), published in French's American drama. The acting edition, no. 76 and The Minor drama. no. 78 by S. French & son, in 1856. It seems quite probable that the whole cast of the first production has been cited as "authors" in this case. | + | While the play is normally attributed to J.M. Morton[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/To_Paris_and_Back_for_Five_Pounds.html?id=QfcmtAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y], a recent Google search also brought up a version attributed to "C.A.F. Wood"[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/To_Paris_and_Back_for_Five_Pounds.html?id=VRvMsgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y] or, in another entry, to a whole team consisting of C.A.F. Wood, J. George Moore, James Thomas Gooderham Rodwell, John Maddison Morton, Samuel D. Johnson, Thomas Haynes Bayly, '''AND''' Thomas Morton[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/To_Paris_and_Back_for_Five_Pounds.html?id=xMkltAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]), published in French's American drama. The acting edition, no. 76 and The Minor drama. no. 78 by S. French & son, in 1856. It seems quite probable that the whole cast of the first production has been cited as "authors" in this case. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 07:47, 9 April 2018
To Paris and Back for Five Pounds is a play by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[1].
Also found as To Paris and Back for £5 or To Paris and Back, for Five Pounds
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 5 February, 1853 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy as Volume 9 of Lacy's acting edition. Also in Issue 466 of 19th century British drama, Issue 43 of French's American drama.
While the play is normally attributed to J.M. Morton[2], a recent Google search also brought up a version attributed to "C.A.F. Wood"[3] or, in another entry, to a whole team consisting of C.A.F. Wood, J. George Moore, James Thomas Gooderham Rodwell, John Maddison Morton, Samuel D. Johnson, Thomas Haynes Bayly, AND Thomas Morton[4]), published in French's American drama. The acting edition, no. 76 and The Minor drama. no. 78 by S. French & son, in 1856. It seems quite probable that the whole cast of the first production has been cited as "authors" in this case.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed as To Paris and Back for £5 by the Charles Fraser and his company in Cape Town with Ben Bolt (Johnstone) on 9 May.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morton,_John_Maddison_(DNB00)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 124,
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