Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady

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Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady is a comedietta in one act by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[].

The original text

Based on a French burletta called Vouloir C'est Pouvoir, Planché's English version was first performed at the Olympic Theatre, London, on the last Thursday of October, 1839 and in published by Samuel French (French's Standard Drama no LXVIII) in 1840(?).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1859: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Cape Town Theatre, on 7 November, with A Dead Shot (Buckstone), A Dreadful Deed (Dubois) and a "Tambourine Dance" by Lizzie Powell.

Sources

Facsimile version of the original 1840 text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 77

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