Agnes de Vere, or The Wife’s Revenge
Agnes de Vere, or The Wife’s Revenge, is a tragedy in three acts by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1].
The play is referred to as Agnes de Vere, or A Wife’s Revenge or simply Agnes de Vere by some authros, but the published versions have the title above.
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The original text
Performed as Agnes de Vere at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1834, with the author in the cast.
Published as no 805 in Dick's series of play texts in 1836?*
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed by Sefton Parry in the Harrington Street Theatre on 5 December. Billed as "a pathetic drama in Three Acts", with a Spanish dance as interlude and The Happy Man, or The Legend of the - (Lover), a one act burlesque act.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 78.
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