The Ticket-of-Leave Man

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The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a melodrama in four acts by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]

The original text

It is adapted from the play, Le Retour de Melun by Édouard Brisebarre and Eugène Nus, published in Les Drames de la Vie in 1860, and staged as Léonard, a drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, at the Théâtre du boulevard du Temple on December 31 1862. The text of Léonard was edited and published by E. Dentu in 1863.

The English play was first produced at the Olympic Theatre, London, 27 March 1863.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1874: Performed in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, on 7 March by Disney Roebuck and his company, with The Area Belle (Brough and Halliday).


Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ticket-of-Leave_Man_(play)

George Rowell. 2013. Nineteenth Century Plays, Read Books Ltd[2]

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19038423?

Nicholas Daly. 2015. The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City. Cambridge University Press: p.62[3]

Facsimile version of the 1863 text of Léonard, Internet Archive[4]


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

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 312

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