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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1850 Performed as ''[[Woman's the Devil]]'' on 10 December in the [[Hope Street Theatre]] by the [[New English Theatrical Company]] of [[W.F.H. Parker]], as an afterpiece to ''[[Victorine]]'' (Buckstone).
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1850 Performed as ''[[Woman's the Devil]]'' (and called an "amusing farce") on 10 December in the [[Hope Street Theatre]] by the [[New English Theatrical Company]] of [[W.F.H. Parker]], as an afterpiece to ''[[Victorine]]'' (Buckstone).
  
1850: Repeated on 17 December as an afterpiece to ''[[Matteo Falcone]]'' (Merimée, tr. Wilson).  
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1850: Repeated on 17 December as an afterpiece to ''[[Matteo Falcone]]'' (Merimée, tr. Wilson).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:05, 24 April 2017

Woman's the Devil! is a burletta in one act by Edward Stirling (1807–1894)[1]

Also found as Woman's the Devil.


The original text

Printed and published by J. Duncombe in 1837.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1850 Performed as Woman's the Devil (and called an "amusing farce") on 10 December in the Hope Street Theatre by the New English Theatrical Company of W.F.H. Parker, as an afterpiece to Victorine (Buckstone).

1850: Repeated on 17 December as an afterpiece to Matteo Falcone (Merimée, tr. Wilson).

Sources

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Woman_s_the_Devil.html?id=8a9otwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://www.amazon.com/Womans-devil-burletta-one-act/dp/B0008C1DI8

http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 419

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