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"Online Books by J. Stirling Coyne", [[The Online Books Page]][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Coyne%2C%20J%2E%20Stirling%20%28Joseph%20Stirling%29%2C%201803%2D1868] | "Online Books by J. Stirling Coyne", [[The Online Books Page]][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Coyne%2C%20J%2E%20Stirling%20%28Joseph%20Stirling%29%2C%201803%2D1868] | ||
Revision as of 06:00, 12 August 2020
Samuel in Search of Himself is a farce in one act by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[1] and H.C. Coape ()[].
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London, in April 1858.
The text first published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the series Lacy's Acting Edition (English and American drama of the nineteenth century) in 1858 and later republished as no 529 of French's Acting Editions.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed on 15 June in the Cape Town Theatre by Charles Fraser and his company (in part consisting of players recruited from the 59th Regiment), along with a selection from Macbeth (Shakespeare), Luke the Labourer (Buckstone) and a comic song written and sung by H. Connerton.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne
"Online Books by J. Stirling Coyne", The Online Books Page[2]
Facsimile version of the edition by Samuel French, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.124203-205
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