Tom Jones
Tom Jones is a novel by Henry Fielding. It has been dramatized in a variety of ways over the years.
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Translations and Adaptations
Adapted as comic opera in three acts by Edward German, with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander M. Thompson and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor [1]. First produced and published in 1907.
The original text
Founded upon Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Adapted for the stage by Janice Honeyman in 1983.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1950: Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1950.
1983: Produced by PACT, adapted and directed by Janice Honeyman, with Andrew Buckland, Karin Jerg, Peter Terry, Jenny Sharp, Martin le Maitre and Carol-Ann Kelleher in the cast.
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