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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
See the entry on ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''
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See the entry on '''''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'''''
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:20, 9 October 2018

Scenes from Robinson Crusoe is a reference to a Cape Town production of scenes from Daniel Defoe's novel, done by the Disney Roebuck company in 1877-1878.

The original text

See the entry on Robinson Crusoe

Translations and adaptations

No indication is given of which of the many dramatized versions of the text was being used ((see Robinson Crusoe), nor any indication of an adaptor. Possibly a dramatization by Roebuck himself, or by a cast member.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

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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