The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk
The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk is a farce in one act by Samuel Beazley (1786–1851)[1], with attribution to Louis-Benoît Picard (1769-1828). and/or Jean Baptiste Radet (1752-1830).
The shortened title, The Lottery Ticket, is often found.
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The original text
It was based on a French work by Louis-Benoit Picard and/or Jean Baptiste Radet and first Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in December 1826. First published as The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk, with no author mentioned, by C. Chapple in 1827. Louis-Benoît Picard and/or Radet are most often listed as additional authors.
Translations and adaptations
There is also a later one act farce, entitled The Lottery Ticket, or The Lawyers's Clerk , credited to J.B. Buckstone, and published by Samuel French (No CXXXVII in the series The Minor Drama). Possibly a new version of Beazley's original. (see Facsimile text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2])
Performance history in South Africa
1846: First performed as The Lottery Ticket, or the Lawyer's Clerk in Cape Town by the All the World's a Stage on Friday, 4 September, with The Brigand (Planché) and The Original (Morton).
1855: Performed in Cape Town on Thursday 26 July 1855 by Sefton Parry as part of his farewell performance, alongside A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock (Brough) and Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan (M'Pherson).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beazley
https://archive.org/stream/lotteryticketan00picagoog#page/n4/mode/2up
Library of Congress Internet Archive[3]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 415, 433
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