The Liar

By Samuel Foote. A Farce in Two Acts. First performed 1762. While Foote indicated that the theme was taken from Lope de Vega, it was really founded on Richard Steele's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's Le Menteur, which in turn was based on La Verdad Sospechosa by the Spanish-American playwright Juan Ruíz de Alarcón, (1634).

Performance history in South Africa

Perfomed by C.E. Boniface's society, Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense in the African Theatre Cape Town on 15 October, 1825, with De Vrouw met Twee Mannen ("The Woman With Two Husbands") by De Pixérécourt/Van Ray. The cast for this play consisted of messrs D. Disant, H. Roselt, C. Boniface, M.C. Wolff, F. Waldek, C. Brink, H. Meurant and Mr Munnik, and Misses C. Roselt and L. Meurant.

Sources

http://www.nndb.com/people/431/000105116/

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Liar.html?id=oH4-AAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y

Bosman, 1928: pp. 294-6,

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