Le Truc d' Arthur
Le Truc d' Arthur ("Arthur's trick") is a French comedy in three acts by Alfred Duru (1829-1889)[1] and Henri Chivot (1830-1897)[2].
First performed in Paris at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal 14 October, 1882. Published by P.V. Stock, 1908, as Volume 9 of Auteurs dramatiques
Adapted into English as Gloriana (later renamed My Artful Valet) by James Mortimer. First performed (as Gloriana) at the Globe Theatre, London, on 10 November 1891.
Contents
The original text
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
https://data.bnf.fr/39494505/le_truc_d_arthur_spectacle_1882/
The Theatre, Volume 28[3]
J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press: p. 92.[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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