The Four Sisters
The Four Sisters is an original farce in one act by William Bayle Bernard (1807-1875)[1]
Also found as The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs and, rather amazingly, as The Four Sailors, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs.
Contents
The original text
First performed as The Four Sisters on May 3, 1832 in The Strand Theatre, London, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by the Le Roy-Duret Company on 22 March, with The Creole (Bernard).
Sources
Facsimile version of the Lacy edition of 1832, The Internet Archive[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bayle_Bernard
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 203, 209, 211, 213, 227, 230.
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