Personation, or Fairly Taken In

is a comic interlude in one act by Mrs Charles Kempble (Marie Thérèse Kemble De Camp)

The original text

Adapted from the French as Personation, or Fairly Taken In by Mrs. Charles Kemble (née Maria Theresa Decamp, and later known also as Marie Thérèse Kemble De Camp).

First performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 29 April, 1805.

Published by Samuel French, in The Minor Drama series no CXX, in 1860; and by John Dicks (748 Dicks' Standard Plays, one volume with Antony and Cleopatra, Married and Settled by Charles Selby) in 1886.

Translations and adaptations

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 1860 edition by Samuel French, Google E-book[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: pp.241,

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