An Unequal Match

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An Unequal Match is a comedy in three acts by Tom Taylor (1817–1880)[1]

The original text

First performed in London on 5 November, 1857, and published by Samuel French (as Issue 374 of French's standard drama: Acting edition) in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed as An Unequal Match by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 10 July, with Perfection (Bayly). The evening a benefit for Constance Young.

Sources

Facsimile version of the original Samuel French text, Google E-book[2]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cause-of-humanity-and-other-stories/an-unequal-match/F76D15AD19A717FA72F9DB0D8C9F37B5

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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