Weak Woman

Weak Woman is a romantic comedy in three acts by H.J. Byron (1835–1884)[1].

First performed at the Strand theatre, London, in 1875, starring Marion Terry, Ada Swanborough, and others, and published by Samuel French in the same year.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 3 July, with a ballad by Miss Wynne and a performance of Poppleton's Predicament (Rae). (The author of Poppleton's Predicaments twice given wrongly as "C.M. Roe" and "C.M. Poe" respectively by Bosman, 1980, pp. 370 and 525).

Sources

The Illustrated London News, Volume 66: 15 May, 1875: p.474[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_Byron

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: p.370

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