The Queer Subject
The Queer Subject is one act farce by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)
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The original text
A farce about grave robbing, written in response to the Anatomy Act of 1832. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, November 1836; Publication Date: 1836
Translations and adaptations
Performances in South Africa
1845: Performed in the Roeland Street Theatre, Cape Town on 17 July by All the World's a Stage, as afterpiece to The Wandering Boys (Pixérécourt).
Sources
http://antiques.gift/the-queer-subject-a-farce-in-one-act_9577484.html Celeste Louise Pottier, 2008. Bodies as Texts, Texts as Bodies: Corpses in Nineteenth-century British Literature[1]: p. 50. F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: 413-4 Go to ESAT Bibliography
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