A Life of Pleasure

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A Life of Pleasure is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[1] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[2]

The original text

First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess's Theatre where it ran until February 1894.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)

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

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 1932. (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.203-205

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