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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
First performed (probably as ''[[£5 Reward]]'', since it was originally licensed under this title) on 3 December, 1855, at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, and published by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] (Lacy's Acting edition), probably in the same year.
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First performed - as ''[[£5 Reward]]'' - on 3 December, 1855, at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, and published by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] (Lacy's Acting edition, vol. 24, no. 358) probably in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 07:09, 18 December 2019

Five Pounds Reward is a farce in one act by John Oxenford (1812–1877)[1]

Also found as £5 Reward or £5 Reward!

The original text

First performed - as £5 Reward - on 3 December, 1855, at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy (Lacy's Acting edition, vol. 24, no. 358) probably in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed as £5 Reward by Charles Fraser in the Cabinet Theatre, Cape Town, on 17 January, along with A Hopeless Passion (Morton).

Sources

The Victorian Plays Project, Electronic Catalogue - Volume 24[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.126

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