Jack Brag, or A Chandler's Chances
A farce in two acts by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1811 –1856)
Also referred to by the name of the novel, i.e. Jack Brag.
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The original text
A dramatization of the popular novel Jack Brag by Theodore Edward Hook (1788 –1841), published in 1837 by Richard Bentley.
À’Beckett’s dramatised version was first performed at Saint James's Theatre , London in 1837 and published in the same year by J. Cumberland. ("printed from the acting copy with remarks biographical and critical by D-G.")
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1847: Performed by the Garrison Players in the Garrison Theatre on Friday 17 September as afterpiece to The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hook
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10518851W/Jack_Brag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Abbott_%C3%A0_Beckett
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p. 396
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