Difference between revisions of "A Desperate Game"
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| − | Published in London by [[T.H. Lacy]]/[[Samuel French]] in 1853(?). | + | First performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, London, on the 9th April 1853. Published in London by [[T.H. Lacy]]/[[Samuel French]] in 1853(?). |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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| + | Facsimile version of the original Lacy text, [[HathiTrust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035136350;view=1up;seq=1] | ||
[[The Online Books Page]], Online Books by John Maddison Morton[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Morton%2C%20John%20Maddison%2C%201811%2D1891] | [[The Online Books Page]], Online Books by John Maddison Morton[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Morton%2C%20John%20Maddison%2C%201811%2D1891] | ||
Revision as of 07:27, 3 February 2019
A Desperate Game is a comic drama, in one act, by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[]
The original text
First performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, London, on the 9th April 1853. Published in London by T.H. Lacy/Samuel French in 1853(?).
Performance history in South Africa
1864: Performed by the Juvenile Christy's Minstrels in the Mechanic's Institute, Cape Town, in July, with lead played by Master Williams and Miss Lytton.
Sources
Facsimile version of the original Lacy text, HathiTrust Digital Library[1]
The Online Books Page, Online Books by John Maddison Morton[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 268-9
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