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''[[The Dumb Belle]]'' is a comedietta in one act by William Bayle Bernard ()[].
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''[[The Dumb Belle]]'' is a comedietta in one act by William Bayle Bernard (1807-1875)[].
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London on October 12th, 1831
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
In  1835 Thomas Hailes Lacy wrote a play called ''[[A Silent Woman]]'', said by the author to have been "adaptated from a recollection of Mr. Bayle Bernard’s comedy of ''[[The Dumb Belle]]''".  First performed on 17 August, 1835 at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London.
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In  1835 Thomas Hailes Lacy wrote a play called ''[[A Silent Woman]]'', said by the author to have been "adaptated from a recollection of Mr. Bayle Bernard’s comedy of '''''[[The Dumb Belle]]'''''".  Lacy's piece was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London on  17 August, 1835.
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980) has the author of the latter play wrongly as "Burnand" (or perhaps his sources had it so).
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980) has the author of the latter play wrongly as "Burnand" (or perhaps his sources had it so).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Performances in South Africa==
 
  
 
1868: ''[[A Silent Woman]]'' was performed in the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town, on 13 April by [[D'Arcy Read]] and [[James Leffler]], with "Sentimental, Comic and Nigger Songs", two scenes from ''[[The Hunchback]]'' (Knowles) and ''[[The Chevalier, the Apprentice and the Grisette]]'' (Anon.).
 
1868: ''[[A Silent Woman]]'' was performed in the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town, on 13 April by [[D'Arcy Read]] and [[James Leffler]], with "Sentimental, Comic and Nigger Songs", two scenes from ''[[The Hunchback]]'' (Knowles) and ''[[The Chevalier, the Apprentice and the Grisette]]'' (Anon.).
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
 
  
 
Blog by H. Dominic W. Stiles, UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries; UCL Library Serices - 17 December 2015[https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2015/12/17/a-silent-woman-a-farce-in-one-act-by-thomas-hailes-lacy/]  
 
Blog by H. Dominic W. Stiles, UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries; UCL Library Serices - 17 December 2015[https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2015/12/17/a-silent-woman-a-farce-in-one-act-by-thomas-hailes-lacy/]  

Revision as of 05:39, 18 May 2021

The Dumb Belle is a comedietta in one act by William Bayle Bernard (1807-1875)[].

The original text

First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London on October 12th, 1831

Translations and adaptations

In 1835 Thomas Hailes Lacy wrote a play called A Silent Woman, said by the author to have been "adaptated from a recollection of Mr. Bayle Bernard’s comedy of The Dumb Belle". Lacy's piece was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London on 17 August, 1835.

F.C.L. Bosman (1980) has the author of the latter play wrongly as "Burnand" (or perhaps his sources had it so).

Translations and adaptations

1868: A Silent Woman was performed in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, on 13 April by D'Arcy Read and James Leffler, with "Sentimental, Comic and Nigger Songs", two scenes from The Hunchback (Knowles) and The Chevalier, the Apprentice and the Grisette (Anon.).

Sources

Blog by H. Dominic W. Stiles, UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries; UCL Library Serices - 17 December 2015[1]

History of Western Theatre: 17th Century to Now/Complete list of one-act plays in English on the Internet[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 232,

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