The Angel of the Attic
A "serio-comic" drama in one act by Thomas Morton (though it is possibly a play by/or written in association with, his son, J.M. Morton) Published in 1843 by Thomas Hailes Lacy. First performed 1843. A Samuel French Reprint Edition (1920)appears under the name Thomas Morton. (See Google Books[1])
Performance history in South Africa
Performed by G.V. Brooke and company in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on Tuesday 9 January 1855, as afterpiece to The Stranger (Kotzebue/Sheridan). Featured were Miss Cathcart, Mr R. Younge and Captain Hall. (Recorded as "by J.M. Morton" in Bosman 1928:p 411)
Performed in the Theatre Royal in Cape Town on 2 and 4 February 1878.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://www.amazon.com/The-Angel-Attic-Thomas-Morton/dp/B004B96PI2
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morton,_Thomas_(1764-1838)_(DNB00)
Bosman, 1928: pp. 411
Bosman, F.C.L., 1980: pp.
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