My Valet and I
My Valet and I is a farce in one act by Thomas Egerton Wilks (1812-1854)[1]
Contents
The original text
Published in London by Duncombe
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Produced by Charles Fraser and his company in the Cape Town Theatre on 11 July, apparently featuring a play Bosman refers to as The Misanthrope, or the Dropping Well of Knavesboro' [sic] by an unnamed author and an afterpiece called My Valet and I (Wilks). Bosman suggests that the first play may have been the John Ozell's original English version of Le Misanthrope. However this is almost certainly an error, and the play being referred to is probably The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough by George Almar.
Sources
Online Books by Thomas Egerton Wilks, The Online Books Page[2]
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. 124-5
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