A Desperate Game

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A Desperate Game is a comic drama, in one act, by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[]


The original text

Published in London by Samuel French in 1853(?).

Performance history in South Africa

1864: Performed by the Juvenile Christy's Minstrels in the Mechanic's Institute, Cape Town, in July, with lead played by Master Williams and Miss Lytton.

Sources

The Victorian Plays Project, Electronic Catalogue - Volume 52[1]


The Online Books Page, Online Books by John Maddison Morton[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 268-9

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