The Married Bachelor, or Master and Man
The Married Bachelor, or Master and Man is a one-act farce by P.P. O'Callaghan.
Contents
The original text
Published in one volume with My Neigbour's Wife by Alfred Bunn (1796 – 1860)in 1882 by J. Dicks in London. The author listed as "O'Calligan" by Bosman 1928)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1830: Performed on 3 July by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre (i.e. the African Theatre), as afterpiece to Romeo and Juliet. Repeated 10 September, as afterpiece to The Honey Moon (Tobin)
1832: Performed on 9 June by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre (i.e. the African Theatre), with Bombastes Furioso, or The King of Utopia (Rhodes) as afterpieces to The Maid and the Magpie, or Who's the Thief!!! (Pocock).
Sources
https://archive.org/stream/myneighbourswife00bunnuoft#page/10/mode/2up
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 214, 215, 222
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