Jack Brag, or A Chandler's Chances

Jack Brag, or A Chandler's Chances is a farce in two acts by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811 –1856)[1]

Also referred to by the name of the novel, i.e. Jack Brag.

'The title sometimes found as Jack Bragg'

The original text

A dramatization of the popular novel Jack Brag by Theodore Edward Hook (1788 –1841), published in 1837 by Richard Bentley.

À’Beckett’s dramatised version was first performed at St. James's Theatre , London May 23rd, 1837 and published in the same year by J. Cumberland. ("printed from the acting copy with remarks biographical and critical by D-G.")

Performance history in South Africa

1847: Performed as Jack Brag (and ascribed to Hook) by the Garrison Players in the Garrison Theatre on Friday 17 September as afterpiece to The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hook

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10518851W/Jack_Brag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Abbott_%C3%A0_Beckett

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 396

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