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The text also referred to simply as '''''[[The Swiss Cottage]]''''', and on occasion called a musical [[burletta]].  
 
The text also referred to simply as '''''[[The Swiss Cottage]]''''', and on occasion called a musical [[burletta]].  
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==The original text==
  
 
First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, followed by performances at various American theatres.  
 
First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, followed by performances at various American theatres.  
 
Published as Volume 405 of Dicks' standard plays,  Volume 1 of Lacy's acting edition and in Samuel French's American Drama (no LXXIX), 1860 and by Thomas Hailes Lacy, London, 1866.  
 
Published as Volume 405 of Dicks' standard plays,  Volume 1 of Lacy's acting edition and in Samuel French's American Drama (no LXXIX), 1860 and by Thomas Hailes Lacy, London, 1866.  
 
Performed and published as '''''[[The Rough Diamond]]''''' in America.
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
Apparently first performed as ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' at Niblo's Theatre in 1841 and the Broadway Theatre in 1850. First performed as ''[[A Rough Diamond]]'' at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, London, on 8 November 1847 and at the Haymarket in the same year.  Published as ''[[A Rough Diamond]]'' by T.H. Lacy in 1847 and as ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' by Dick and Fitzgerald (1841?) and Samuel French as No XLI of French's Minor Drama in 1850.
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1871: Performed as ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' by the visiting [[Bijou Troupe]] in the [[Cape Town Institute]] building on 20 March, with ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]''.
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1871: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the visiting [[Bijou Troupe]] in the [[Cape Town Institute]] building on 20 March, with ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (Buckstone).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 19:22, 18 April 2018

The Swiss Cottage, or Why Don't She Marry? is a vaudeville in one act by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)[1]

The text also referred to simply as The Swiss Cottage, and on occasion called a musical burletta.

The original text

First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, followed by performances at various American theatres. Published as Volume 405 of Dicks' standard plays, Volume 1 of Lacy's acting edition and in Samuel French's American Drama (no LXXIX), 1860 and by Thomas Hailes Lacy, London, 1866.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1871: Performed as The Swiss Cottage by the visiting Bijou Troupe in the Cape Town Institute building on 20 March, with The Rough Diamond (Buckstone).

Sources

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Buckstone%2C%20John%20Baldwin%2C%201802%2D1879

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of A Rough Diamond (nd), The Digital Archive[2]

Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of The Rough Diamond (1850), The Digital Archive[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp 253-4.

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