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| − | A play by Arthur Murphy (1727–1805) or a South African newspaper based in Johannesburg. | + | A play by Arthur Murphy (1727–1805) or a South African newspaper based in Johannesburg.</big> |
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The Citizen can refer to two things in this context:
A play by Arthur Murphy (1727–1805) or a South African newspaper based in Johannesburg.
Contents
The Citizen, a farce in two acts by Arthur Murphy (1727–1805)[1].
The original text
Originally offered in a three-act version at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden in 1761, it was revised into a shorter, two-act version in 1762 and this version was then printed in 1763, for G. Kearsly, in Philadelphia in America by T. H. Palmer, 1824.
The source for the play was apparently an unnamed contemporary French play.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1807: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on Saturday 26 September 1807, with Abroad and at Home (Holman), and an epilogue written and spoken by Captain Collins.
1811: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 15 June, 1811, with All the World's a Stage (Jackman).
1811: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 10 July, 1811, with The Heir at Law (Colman Jr).
1830: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the English Theatrical Amateur Company on 1 May 1830, with The Weathercock (Forrest), as a Benefit for Mr White, the Professor of Music, an event which also included a musical concert as interlude (which i.a. featured an overture from Lodoiska). The advert in the South African Commercial Advertiser (1 May 1830) mistakenly claims that Murphy's "admired farce...[has].. never ..[been]..performed here".
Sources
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha009561078
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/citizen.-farce-as-it-is-performed/id483401340?mt=11
http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/76_murp_citizen.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Murphy_(writer)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 73, 142, 203
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The Citizen, a South African newspaper based in Johannesburg
The publication
The newspaper was founded in 1976 during the apartheid era by Louis Luyt, at which time it was the only major English-language newspaper favourable to the ruling National Party. In 1978, during the Muldergate Scandal, it was revealed that the money to establish and finance the newspaper had come from a secret slush fund of the Department of Information, and ultimately from the Department of Defence.
Initially published by Perskor, ownership of the newspaper was transferred from Perskor to Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Limited in 1998. The company is involved in various fields of publishing and printing such as newspapers, magazines, commercial print, book printing, stationery, packaging and labels.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Citizen_(South_African_newspaper)
https://www.citizen.co.za/about-us/
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