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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
Review, The Aldine Magazine, Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NBwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=The+Queen%27s+Horse+burletta&source=bl&ots=u8u0G2y8JD&sig=_YnAoPLCS2XDQUPy3itSzOqPcx4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j2I8Vc6jEI6O7AaH1YHABw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=The%20Queen's%20Horse%20burletta&f=false]
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Facsimile version of a Review, ''The Aldine Magazine'', Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NBwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=The+Queen%27s+Horse+burletta&source=bl&ots=u8u0G2y8JD&sig=_YnAoPLCS2XDQUPy3itSzOqPcx4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j2I8Vc6jEI6O7AaH1YHABw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=The%20Queen's%20Horse%20burletta&f=false]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9_bibliography
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9_bibliography
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 407,  
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Revision as of 06:38, 26 April 2015

A burletta in one act by Michael Burke Honan, James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)

The original French text

According to a reviewer in The Aldine Magazine this was a "free and compressed translation of Le Brasseur de Preston", an "opéra-comique en trois actes" composed by Adolphe Adam to a libretto by Adolphe de Leuven (1800-1884) and Léon-Lévy Brunswick (1805-1859), and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse on 31 October, 1838. It was published by in Paris by J. Delahante, n.d.(ca.1838).

The original English text

The English one-act version by Honan and Planché was first performed at Madame Vestris's Royal Olympic Theatre on 3 December, 1838 and published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1839.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1854: Performed on 5 June in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players and some local Amateurs, with The Rent Day (Jerrold) and The Spitalfields Weaver (Bayly).

Sources

Facsimile version of a Review, The Aldine Magazine, Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. (Google eBook)[1]

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100410531

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9_bibliography

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 407,

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