Modern Wives
Modern Wives is a play by E. Warren (Eliza Warren - 1810-1900?)[1]
Not to be confused with the comedy The Modern Wife, or the Virgin Her Own Rival by John Stevens (1744)
Contents
The original text
Said to have been taken from A. Velabrague, 1887. First performed in 1887.
Translations and adaptations
Modern Wives (E. Warren from A. Velabrague), 1887
Performance history in South Africa
1900: Performed in Daly's English version as A Night Off by the Herbert Flemming Company as part of an extended season in the Opera House, Cape Town.
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.614[2]
Tearsheets on British and U.S. Stage Productions, 1818-1933 Inventory, Toronto Public Library[3]
Marianne Van Remoortel. 2015. Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press Springer[4]
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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