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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Referred to as a  "petite comedy" and "adapted from a French vaudeville", it was first first performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London, on 18 November, 1856. Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in London in the same year.
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Referred to as a  "petite comedy" and according to Ganzl (2002), "adapted from a French vaudeville", it was first first performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London, on 18 November, 1856. Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in London in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:14, 21 April 2018

Our Wife, or The Rose of Amiens is a comic drama in two acts by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[]

The original text

Referred to as a "petite comedy" and according to Ganzl (2002), "adapted from a French vaudeville", it was first first performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London, on 18 November, 1856. Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in London in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1874: Performed as Our Wife in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 28 February, with a shortened version of Black-Eyed Susan (Jerrold).

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1856 edition of the original text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

Kurt Ganzl. 2002. Lydia Thompson: Queen of Burlesque. 2002. Routledge: pp. 39-41.[2]

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

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.

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