A Desperate Game
A Desperate Game is a play by Morton
The original text
Performance history in South Africa
1864: Performed by the Juvenile Christy's Minstrels in the Mechanic's Institute, Cape Town, in July, with lead played by Master Williams and Miss Lytton.
Sources
The Victorian Plays Project, Electronic Catalogue - Volume 52[1]
The Online Books Page, Online Books by John Maddison Morton
(Morton, John Maddison, 1811-1891)http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Morton%2C%20John%20Maddison%2C%201811%2D1891
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 268-9
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