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Revision as of 04:43, 1 June 2020
Mammon is a play by Sydney Grundy (1848-1914)[1]
Not to be confused with Mammon and Gammon by Talfourd, or Mammon, Robot Born of Woman, a "comedic play" by Robert Llewellyn.
Contents
The original text
Mammon (1877) from Octave Feuillet, Montjoye, rewritten for Beerbohm-Tree as A Bunch of Violets (1894) The play was originally written for W.H. Vernon by Grundy and first performed at the Strand Theatre, London, on 7 April, 1877. It became a standard item in Vernon's repertoire.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1891-2: Performed by the Geneviève Ward Company during a nine months' tour of South Africa, under the auspices of Luscombe Searelle, featuring Geneviève Ward and W.H. Vernon in the leading roles.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Grundy
"Grundy, Sidney" in Jean Chothia. 2016. English Drama of the Early Modern Period 1890-1940. Routledge: p. 305[2]
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900 (Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century) Cambridge University Press:p.396 [3]
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 1932. (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.203-205
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