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Revision as of 06:11, 10 July 2020
The Prayer of the Sword is a play in five acts by James Bernard Fagan (1873-1933)[1]
Contents
The original text
Written and performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 19 September, 1904. Published by R. Brimley Johnston, London, in 1904.
The play is described by Allardyce Nicoll (1973:p.292)as a "rather bombastic blank-verse religious play"
Translations and adaptations
Leoni: The Prayer and the Sword - "Music from the play by J.B.Fagan"
Performance history in South Africa
1905: Performed in South Africa by Leonard Rayne and his company as part of a season of plays, inter alia playing in the Opera House, Cape Town.
Sources
Facsimile version of the original published text, the Internet Archive[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Fagan
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: p.422
Allardyce Nicoll. 1973. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period Cambridge University Press
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