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| − | ''[[The Country Squire]]'' (or ''[[The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall]]'') is a comedy in two acts by Charles Dance (1794–1863)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dance_(playwright)]
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | First performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in London, on January 19th 1837.
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| − | The full title as published in Webster's Acting National Drama by Chapman and Hall in 18**, is ''[[The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall]]'', though it is wrongly given by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosmnan]] (p.416) as ''[[The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill]]'', though this may have been an error by the performers rather than the historian.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1848: Performed by [[All the World's a Stage]] in Cape Town as ''[[The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill]]'' on Thursday 21 September 1848 in the [[Hope Street Theatre]], accompanied by the "celebrated [[Ethiopian Serenaders]]", a clog hornpipe performance and some comic songs, before concluding with the farce ''[[Advice Gratis]]'' by Charles Dance.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dance_(playwright)
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| − | Facsimile version of the third edition (1840), Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=kdlUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=The+Country+Squire+a+drama+by+Charles+Dance&source=bl&ots=q0opz7ZTc-&sig=4ms0drhDhdTvgEFtDBdgMUDpOCM&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqjcerm8zMAhWmK8AKHetBAlwQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=The%20Country%20Squire%20a%20drama%20by%20Charles%20Dance&f=false]
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 416,
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