Miss Elizabeth's Prisoner
Miss Elizabeth's Prisoner is a romantic comedy in three acts by Robert Neilson Stephens ()[] and E. Lyall Swete ()[]
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The original text
Produced on April 16, 1904, at The Imperial Theatre London.
Published by by Samuel French in 1907,
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1905: Performed in South Africa by Leonard Rayne and his company as part of a season of plays, inter alia playing in the Opera House, Cape Town. (The play's title wrongly given as "Miss Elizabeth Prisoner" in Bosman, 1980:p.422)
Sources
Transcribed version of the original text, the Internet Archive[1]
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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