Foul Play or The Scuttled Ship

Foul Play is a drama in four acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) and Charles Reade.

The original text

Based on

First performed at the Holborn Theater, London, under the management of Miss Fanny Josephs on 28 May 1868.

Published in and by The Dramatic Publishing Company, Chicago as no 368 of Sergel's Acting Drama.

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