Time Tries All!

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Time Tries All! is a domestic comedy in two acts by John Courtney (Courtney (1804–1865)[1]

Also found as Time Tries All

The original text

First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London on 4 September 1848, it attained great success around England, the colonies and in America between the 1850s and the 1880s.

The text was published by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1848.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

A version was done in South Africa under the title Time Tries All, or The Bashful Lover. This is the Courtney play and not the be confused with The Bashful Lover[2], the 1636 tragicomedy by Philip Massinger (1583–1640)[3]

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed as Time Tries All, or The Bashful Lover on the Eastern Cape border on July 30 and August 1, by the Band of Amateurs of the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot.


1861:

Sources

Transcribed version of the 1848 text by Lacy, Victorian Plays Project[4]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 98, 190, 275



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