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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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Facsimile version of ''[[The Post Boy]]'', 1860, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035141533&view=1up&seq=2]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.326
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.326

Revision as of 06:45, 18 November 2020

The Old Post Boy is a by an unknown author.

The original text

Probably this is a version of The Post Boy a drama in two acts by H.T. Craven (1818-1905)[], first performed at the Strand Theatre, London, on 31 October, 1860 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1875: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 4 August, with Aladdin, or The Wonderful Scamp (Byron).

Sources

Facsimile version of The Post Boy, 1860, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.326

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