The Manxman
The Manxman is a play by Wilson Barrett ()[]
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The original text
Based on the novel by Hall Caine ()[], which first appeared as a serial in The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper and Court Chronicle between January and July 1894. It was then published as one volume in August 1894 by Heinemann.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1902: Performed by Wilson Barrett and his Company, as their opening piece of a short season in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, under the auspices of the Wheeler Brothers in August. D.C. Boonzaier described the performance by the famed tragedian as disappointing and the actor "feeble" and "tottering", and "struggling painfully to realise the strong, robust and manly hero of Mr Hall Caine's imagination" (cited in Bosman, 1980: p.411).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manxman_(novel)
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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