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Revision as of 05:21, 13 March 2020
Defiance et Malice is a French piece written in verse by Michel Dieulafoy ()[].
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Adapted into English as Doubt and Conviction
Then apparently adapted again as Personation, or Fairly Taken In, a comic interlude in one act, and now ascribed to Mrs. Charles Kemble (née Maria Theresa Decamp, and later known also as Marie Thérèse Kemble De Camp), often as an original piece. First performed under this title at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 29 April, 1805, with She did write the farce Personation; or. Fairly Taken In, in which she also created the role of Lady Julia at Drury Lane on 29 April 1805, with the author as "Lady Julia".
Published by Samuel French, in The Minor Drama series no CXX, in 1860; and by John Dicks (748 Dicks' Standard Plays, one volume with Antony and Cleopatra, Married and Settled by Charles Selby) in 1886.
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
The Monthly Mirror, Vol. XIX, 1805: p. 346[1]
Facsimile version of the 1860 edition by Samuel French, Google E-book[2]
Facsimile version of the 1886 version by Dicks, Warwick Digital Collections[3]
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: pp.241,
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