The Conjugal Lesson

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The Conjugal Lesson is a farce in one act by Henry Danvers ()[]

Also found as A Conjugal Lesson.

The original text

First performed on July 3, 1856, at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London and published as A comic scene inculcating and entitled A conjugal lesson, in one act, in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy, [1856?]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

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


1858: Performed as A Conjugal Lesson by J.E.H. English and his company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 21 September, with The Corsican Brothers ().

1862: Performed as an interlude by the Amateurs of the Band (North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot) on 8 October, in the Garrison Theatre, Keiskama Hoek, with a cast consisting of F. Girton (Mr Simon Lullaby), J. Davies (Mrs Letitia Lullaby). The evening also included the plays The Eddystone Elf (Pitt) and Slasher and Crasher (Morton).