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Using the French play as starting point, James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9] wrote a one act English version called '''''[[Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady]]''''' (described as " a comedietta in one act"). | Using the French play as starting point, James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9] wrote a one act English version called '''''[[Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady]]''''' (described as " a comedietta in one act"). | ||
The work was first performed at the Olympic Theatre, London, on the last Thursday of October, 1839 and published by [[Samuel French]] (French's Standard Drama no LXVIII) in 1840(?). | The work was first performed at the Olympic Theatre, London, on the last Thursday of October, 1839 and published by [[Samuel French]] (French's Standard Drama no LXVIII) in 1840(?). | ||
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+ | In 1863 John Pratt Wooler wrote a comedy in one act called ''[[A Faint Heart which Did Win a Fair Lady]]'', Published in London by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in 1863. | ||
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == |
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Vouloir C'est Pouvoir ("to want is to be able to") is a musical comedy (burletta) in two acts by Jacques-Arsène-François-Polycarpe Ancelot, (1794-1854)[1] and Alexis Decomberousse (1793-1862)[2].
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The original text
Performed for the first time at the Théâtre de Vaudeville, Paris, on 24 June, 1837 and published by Marchant (Paris) in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Using the French play as starting point, James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[3] wrote a one act English version called Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady (described as " a comedietta in one act"). The work was first performed at the Olympic Theatre, London, on the last Thursday of October, 1839 and published by Samuel French (French's Standard Drama no LXVIII) in 1840(?).
In 1863 John Pratt Wooler wrote a comedy in one act called A Faint Heart which Did Win a Fair Lady, Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1863.
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed in Planché's English version as Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady by Sefton Parry and his company in the Cape Town Theatre, on 7 November, with A Dead Shot (Buckstone), A Dreadful Deed (Dubois) and a "Tambourine Dance" by Lizzie Powell.
Sources
Facsimile version of the original French text, Gallica BNF[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Fran%C3%A7ois_Ancelot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Decomberousse
Facsimile version of the original 1840 text by Planché, Hathi Trust Digital Library[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 77
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