Le Retour de Melun
Le Retour de Melun is a drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux by Édouard Brisebarre and Eugène Nus.
Also known as Léonard and became well known in the English world as The Ticket-of-Leave Man.
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The original text
It is adapted from the play, Le Retour de Melun by Édouard Brisebarre and Eugène Nus, published in Les Drames de la Vie in 1860, and staged as Léonard, a drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, at the Théâtre du boulevard du Temple on December 31 1862. The text of Léonard was edited and published by E. Dentu in 1863.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as an English melodrama in four acts with the title The Ticket-of-Leave Man, by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]. The English play was first produced at the Olympic Theatre, London, 27 March 1863 and published
Performance history in South Africa
1874: Performed as The Ticket-of-Leave Man in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, on 7 March by Disney Roebuck and his company, with The Area Belle (Brough and Halliday).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ticket-of-Leave_Man_(play)
George Rowell. 2013. Nineteenth Century Plays, Read Books Ltd[2]
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19038423?
Nicholas Daly. 2015. The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City. Cambridge University Press: p.62[3]
Facsimile version of the 1863 text of Léonard, Internet Archive[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 312
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