The Woman in Red
The Woman in Red is a drama in a prologue and three acts by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[1]
La Tireuse Des Cartes ("the fortune teller") is a French comedy on one act .
Also the title of a number of paintings, notably the famous one from 1869 by Frédéric Bazille ()[].
Contents
The original text
Translated and adapted from the French as The Woman in Red by J. Stirling Coyne.
The English text first published by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1872.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal , Cape Town, on 3 to 7 September by a company consisting of Henry Smith, Richard Thatcher (also referred to as the Smith and Thatcher Company) , with Ada Ward
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13396280
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.372
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