A Royal Family
A Royal Family is a play in three acts by Robert Marshall (1863–1910)[1]
Often billed as Captain Robert Marshall, since he wrote a number of his earlier plays while still in the military.
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The original text
Subtitled "a Comedy of Romance", it was originally written and probably performed in 1898, while he was stationed in South Africa as aide-de-camp to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal.
Published in London by Chiswick Press, 1904.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1901: Performed by the Sass and Nelson Company in the Opera House, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays that opened on 11 May.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marshall_(dramatist)
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: p.409
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