Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard is a French drama in five acts and eight tableaux by Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870)[1].

The original text

First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Parte Saint-Martin on 2 June, 1834, and published by Charpentier, Paris, 1834

Translations and adaptations

Translated and adapted into English as a three-act historical play called Catherine Howard, or The Throne, the Tomb, and the Scaffold by William E. Suter (1811?-1882)[2].

Suter's play sometimes also referred to simply as Catherine Howard .

First performed in English at the Surrey Theatre, London in 1858.

Published by De Witt in New York,

Performance history in South Africa

1875: Performed as Catherine Howard in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 21 June, with Boots at the Swan (Selby).

Sources

Facsimile version of the original French edition , Google E-book[3]

Facsimile version of the De Witt edition of the Suter English text, The Internet Archive[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Suter%2C%20William%20E%2E%2C%201811%3F%2D1882

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 1923. (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.

William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

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