Mary Turner
Mary Turner can refer to any of two burlesques of Fitzball and Wallace's opera Maritana:
Mary Turner by William Brough (1868?) and Mary Turner, or The Wicious Willin and Wictorious Wirtue by F.C. Burnand (18**).
Contents
The original texts
Mary Turner by William Brough (1868?)
Mary Turner, or The Wicious Willin and Wictorious Wirtue by F.C. Burnand (18**)
Written specifically for Steele and Norton's Christy's Minstrels
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
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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