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''[[The Death Token]]'' is a play by Wilks.
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''[[The Death Token]]'' is a play by Thomas Egerton Wilks.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 05:27, 16 August 2019

The Death Token is a play by Thomas Egerton Wilks.

The original text

It bears the name of “The Death Token,” and embodies an old superstition, . Performed in the Surrey Theatre, by the compbined com[panies of the Adelphi and Surrey theatres in May, 11837.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1863: Performed by the Garrison Players in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on 20 January.

Sources

The Lady's Magazine & Museum of the Belles-lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, Etc (Volume 10, Issue of June 1837: p.432), Google E-book[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.255

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