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== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:41, 22 June 2021

The Tear, The Tar and the Tilbury is a "comic-tragedy" in five acts by an anonymous author.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed in September, as part of the festivities surrounding the visit to Cape Town of Prince Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria.

Sources

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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