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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | Besides the reference in Bosman (1980: p. 222) there is no further information at present about a play by this name, though it is quite possibly a version of Pocock's melodrama ''[[The Robber's Bride]]'' (also found as ''[[The Robber's Wife]]'', and on occasion billed as being "taken from "The Coiners" from Tales of the O'Hara Family"[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=wNMmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=The+Robber%27s+Family+a++play+by+Pocock&source=bl&ots=Yw7a8dY-aH&sig=ACfU3U0GBEhY2RcBQBVdOXY6RDR-xX27bw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8nLvUgpfqAhU2ShUIHc8dCtUQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Robber's%20Family%20a%20%20play%20by%20Pocock&f=false].
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1867: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 29 April by the [[Le Roy's Original Company]] , along with ''[[Aladdin, or The Wonderful Scamp]]'' (Byron) and ''[[The Fantoccini Family]]'' (Ray). The evening was also offered as a benefit for [[Alfred Ray]] and was under the patronage of The Cape Voluntary Organisation.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | "Fantoccini" in the [[Unima]] website ''The World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry''[https://wepa.unima.org/en/fantoccini/]
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| − | [[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.222
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