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, as an afterpiece to a play F.C.L. Bosman (1980) refers to as The Misanthrope, or the Dropping Well of Knavesboro' [sic] by an unnamed author. (Probably The Charcoal Burner or the Dropping Well of Knaresborough by George Almar).
Sources
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011541949
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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