Fazio, or The Italian Wife
Fazio, or The Italian Wife is a tragedy, in five acts, by Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)[1].
Also found as Fazio, The Italian Wife and Fazio, or The Italian Wife's Revenge.
Contents
The original text
First published, as Fazio. A Tragedy in Oxford by Samuel Collingwood, 1815 (2nd edition 1816, 3rd edition 1818). According to the author's "Advertisement", the play was broadly based on an (uncredited) tale said to have been "quoted in the Annual Register of 1795 from the Varieties of Literature", .
It was published before it had been performed, the first performance (as The Italian Wife) only taking place later, at the Surrey Theatre, and seemingly without the author's permission, followed by performances in Bath and at Covent Garden, London.
Performed at the Park Theatre, New York in 1832, as Fazio, or The Italian Wife, with Fanny Kemble in the lead, and was published in New York in 1847 by Berford and Company.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Fazio, or The Italian Wife's Revenge by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 19 March.
1866: Performed as Fazio, or The Italian Wife's Revenge by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 5 April, with Turn Him Out (Williams).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1847 edition of the text by Berford and Company, The Internet Archive [2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hart_Milman
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.202-204,
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