A Ticket-of-Leave
A Ticket-of-Leave is a farce in one act by Watts Phillips (1825–1874)[1],
Not to be confused with The Ticket-of-Leave Man, the melodrama by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[2].
Also found as A Ticket of Leave.
Contents
The original text
The play opened at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, under the management of Benjamin Webster, on 1st December, 1862.
Published as A Ticket-of-Leave in Clyde, Ohio by Ames & Holgate, [1862?]
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Facsimile version of the Ames and Holgate publication of the text, HathiTrust Digital Library[3]
E. Godfrey. 2010. Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger Springer, p. 163[4]
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phillips,_Watts_(DNB00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Phillips
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
