Masks and Faces, or Before and Behind the Curtain
Masks and Faces, or Before and Behind the Curtain is a comedy by Charles Reade ()[] and Tom Taylor ()[].
Also referred to simply as Masks and Faces
Contents
The original text
First produced by Benjamin Webster in November, 1852; and played 103 nights at the Haymarket and Adelphi Theatres.
The text published as Masks and Faces, or Before and Behind the Curtain by Richard Bentley in 1854
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
Transcript version of the 1859 text by Bentley, [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.203-205
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