Bachelor's Buttons

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Bachelor's Buttons is a play by Stirling

The original text

Referred to as an "elegant Personation-Commedietta" by


Stirling, Edward

Bachelor's Button! A Farce in One Act

London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, n.d., mid-19th century, No date. (

https://www.kelmscottbookshop.com/pages/books/12185/edward-stirling/bachelors-button-a-farce-in-one-act

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Billed as an "elegant Personation-Commedietta" it was performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 24 May by the Le Roy and Duret Company, with The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana (Boucicault)

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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