Gabrielle

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Gabrielle is a French play in five acts by Émile Augier (1820-1889)[1]

The original text

First produced in Paris at the Théâtre Française 15 December, 1849 and published by , 1850.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English as Good for Evil, or A Wife's Trial by Thomas H. Reynoldson, (1808?-1888)[2] and billed "a domestic lesson, in two acts, adapted from the French". First performed as Good for Evil, or A Wife's Trial at the Théatre-Français on 15 December, 1849.

Adapted by Reynoldson into English as a three act play called as The Barrister for performance at the Surrey Theatre on 1 March, 1852 and published for them by Harris, 1860.

Adapted by Reynoldson into English as a three act play called ''Home Truths, for performance at the Royal Princess's Theatre on 30 November, 1859 and published for them by Harris, 1860.


First performed as Good for Evil, or A Wife's Trial at the Théatre-Français on 15 December, 1849. Later also performed as The Barrister at the Surrey Theatre on 1 March, 1852 and as Home Truths at the Royal Princess's Theatre on 30 November, 1859.

Published as Good for Evil, or A Wife's Trial by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1860, and listing the three titles and places of performance.

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1850 French edition by Michel Lévy frères (4th edition), Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Augier

Facsimile version of Good for Evil, or A Wife's Trial (1860), Hathi Trust Digital Library[4]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.211

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