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''[[The Hunchback]]'' is a play in five acts by James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sheridan_Knowles]
 
''[[The Hunchback]]'' is a play in five acts by James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sheridan_Knowles]
 
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 05:51, 18 April 2018

The Hunchback is a play in five acts by James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862)[1]

The original text

First performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in 1832, with Fanny Kemble, Charles Kemble and Knowles himself in the cast. Published in London the same year by E. Moxon.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed by the Disney Roebuck Company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 15 November, with Betsy Baker, or Too Attentive by Half (Morton).

Sources

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3480

Facsimile version of the 1832 text, The Internet Archive[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sheridan_Knowles

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

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