The Ticket-of-Leave Man

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The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a melodrama in four acts by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]

The original text

It is adapted from the story, Le Retour de Melun by Brisbarre and Nus, published in Les Drames de la Vie and later dramatized by the authors as Léonard.

founded on a French dramatic tale, "Le retour de melun," included in "Les drames de la vie," by MM. Brisebarre and Nuz [i.e. Nus]

and Eugène Nus's Le Retour de Melun was a play, published in Drames de la Vie in 1860, and staged as Léonard at the Théâtre de la Gaité on December 31

The English play was first produced at the Olympic Theatre, London, 27 March 1863.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1874: Performed in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, on 7 March by Disney Roebuck and his company, with The Area Belle (Brough and Halliday).


Sources

George Rowell. 2013. Nineteenth Century Plays, Read Books Ltd[2]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ticket-of-Leave_Man_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 312

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