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Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press: pp.404-5[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=u9s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA405&lpg=PA405&dq=Human+Nature+a+drama+by+H.+Pettitt+and+Augustus+Harris&source=bl&ots=j0eatoE6nB&sig=ACfU3U1tzWNKg64lwfl-HcadaDdkN2Wdnw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpu5GF8-HoAhXjrnEKHbFuDMUQ6AEwBXoECAsQNA#v=onepage&q=Human%20Nature%20a%20drama%20by%20H.%20Pettitt%20and%20Augustus%20Harris&f=false] | Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press: pp.404-5[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=u9s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA405&lpg=PA405&dq=Human+Nature+a+drama+by+H.+Pettitt+and+Augustus+Harris&source=bl&ots=j0eatoE6nB&sig=ACfU3U1tzWNKg64lwfl-HcadaDdkN2Wdnw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpu5GF8-HoAhXjrnEKHbFuDMUQ6AEwBXoECAsQNA#v=onepage&q=Human%20Nature%20a%20drama%20by%20H.%20Pettitt%20and%20Augustus%20Harris&f=false] | ||
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Sos Eltis. 2013. ''Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930''. Ocford University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=RixVCUPpetEC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=Human+Nature+by+Henry+Pettitt++and+Augustus+Harris&source=bl&ots=A8zyOGYGM1&sig=ACfU3U04cv5_i1xMWqa1Uq1nLULgYfNqpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiprd7v_-HoAhVkoXEKHUGcAigQ6AEwB3oECAsQMA#v=onepage&q=Human%20Nature%20by%20Henry%20Pettitt%20%20and%20Augustus%20Harris&f=false] | Sos Eltis. 2013. ''Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930''. Ocford University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=RixVCUPpetEC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=Human+Nature+by+Henry+Pettitt++and+Augustus+Harris&source=bl&ots=A8zyOGYGM1&sig=ACfU3U04cv5_i1xMWqa1Uq1nLULgYfNqpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiprd7v_-HoAhVkoXEKHUGcAigQ6AEwB3oECAsQMA#v=onepage&q=Human%20Nature%20by%20Henry%20Pettitt%20%20and%20Augustus%20Harris&f=false] | ||
Revision as of 06:13, 12 April 2020
According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975: pp.404-5) there were two versions of a play by this name.
Not to be confused with the 2001 American film called Human Nature'
Contents
Human Nature (1867)
A light comedy written by Augustus Glossop Harris (1825-1873)[1] and T.J. Williams (fl 1860s).
The original text
Olympic Theatre, London, 22 July 1867
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Human Nature (1885)
A melodrama about the vengeance of a cast-off mistress at the time of the British war in the Sudan, written by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[2] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[3]
The original text
First performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 12 September, 1885
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1904: The Drury Lane (i.e. Pettitt and Harris) version performed by Leonard Rayne and his company in the Opera House , Cape Town in the first half of the year.
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: pp.404-5[4]
Sos Eltis. 2013. Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930. Ocford University Press[5]
Jacqueline S. Bratton, et al. 1991. Acts of Supremacy: The British Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930. Manchester University Press[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)
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.420
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