The Point of Honour
The Point of Honour is a prose play in three acts by Charles Kemble (1775–1854)[1].
The original text
This is an English adaptation of the five act French play Le Deserteur of Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740 – 1814), first published in 1771.
First performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1808 and published by Longman et al, London in 1808.
Performance history in South Africa
1822: Performed by the Garrison Players on 18 September 1827 in the Cape Town Theatre, with the burlesque Amoroso, King of Little Britain (Planché)) and The Irishman in London (Wm Macready)
Sources
Digital facsimile version of 1808 text (A Google E-Book)[2]
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, Saturday, September 14, 1822.
Kemble, Charles (DNB00) in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 [3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]:pp.182,
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