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1859: Produced by [[Charles Fraser]] and his company in the [[Cape Town Theatre]] on 11 July, apparently featuring a play Bosman refers to as '''''[[The Misanthrope,  or the Dropping Well of Knavesboro']]''''' [sic] by an unnamed author and an afterpiece called ''[[My Valet and I]]'' (Wilks). Bosman suggests that the first play may have been the John Ozell's original English version of ''[[Le Misanthrope]]''. However this is almost certainly an error, and the play being referred to is probably ''[[The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough]]'' by George Almar.
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1859: Produced by [[Charles Fraser]] and his company in the [[Cape Town Theatre]] on 11 July, as an afterpiece to a play [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980) refers to as '''''[[The Misanthrope,  or the Dropping Well of Knavesboro']]''''' [sic] by an unnamed author. (Probably ''[[The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough]]'' by George Almar).
  
 
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Revision as of 05:12, 19 September 2020

My Valet and I is a farce in one act by Thomas Egerton Wilks (1812-1854)[1]


The original text

Published in London by Duncombe

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1859: Produced by Charles Fraser and his company in the Cape Town Theatre on 11 July, as an afterpiece to a play F.C.L. Bosman (1980) refers to as The Misanthrope, or the Dropping Well of Knavesboro' [sic] by an unnamed author. (Probably The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough by George Almar).

Sources

Online Books by Thomas Egerton Wilks, The Online Books Page[2]

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. 124-5

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