The Bottle

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The Bottle is a drama in two acts by T.P. Taylor (Tom Taylor, 1817-1880)[1]

The original text

A play consisting of "eight tableaux" about the evils of drink, based on the series of graphic illustrations - also entitled The Bottle - by George Cruikshank.

Published by John Dicks, London in 1847

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1850(?): Performed in Cape Town by James Lycett and company in the Drury Lane Theatre

Sources

https://archive.org/details/bottleadramaintw00tayluoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.

P.W. Laidler. 1926. The Annals of the Cape Stage. Edinburgh: William Bryce.

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