Le Mari à la Campagne
Le Mari à la Campagne is a French comedy in three acts by Jean-François Bayard (1796-1853)[1] and Jules de Wailly (1806-1866)[2].
Referred to wrongly as Un Mari en Campaigne in the English text.
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The original text
First performed in Paris at the Comédie-Française on 3 June, 1844, and published in the Magasin Theatral in 1844.
Translations and adaptations
Freely translated into English as The Serious Family, a comedy in three acts, by Morris Barnett (1800-1856)[3].
First performed in English at The Haymarket Theatre, London, and Burton's Theatre, New York, in 1849. Published in New York by Samuel French in 1850 as No LXXIX of French's Standard Drama.
Performance history in South Africa
1877: Performed as The Serious Family by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 2 August, with Brown and the Brahmins (Reece).
Sources
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AAN3431.0001.001?view=toc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_de_Wailly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Barnett
Facsimile version of the French text of 1844, Gallica BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France)[4]
Facsimile version of the Samuel French text, The Internet Archive[5]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.
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