The Farmer's Story, or The Three Trials of Life

The Farmer's Story, or The Three Trials of Life is a domestic drama in three acts by William Bayle Bernard (1807 –1875)[1].

Also found simply as The Farmer's Story

The original text

Performed on 13 June 1836, at the Lycaeum Theatre, London.

Published by Samuel French (London and New York) in 1836 and later by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1871 and by Dicks, 1883 (as Volume 434 of Dicks' standard plays).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Sefton Parry and his company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

https://www.worldcat.org/title/farmers-story-a-domestic-drama-in-three-acts/oclc/8522672

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

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: pp.203-205

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