A Faint Heart which Did Win a Fair Lady

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A Faint Heart which Did Win a Fair Lady is a comedy in one act by John Pratt Wooler (1824-1868)[1]

Also found as Faint Heart which Did Win Fair Lady.

The original text

The play was first performed at the Royal Strand Theatre, London on 9 February, 1863. Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year as Volume 57 of Lacy's acting edition. The title is a surely a reference (and the play even a response) to Planché's 1837 comedy, Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, which may thus have indirectly inspired Wooler's play.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed (as Faint Heart which Did Win Fair Lady) by the Le Roy and Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, on 15 October, with Pizarro (Von Kotzebue/Sheridan), A Ticket to Leave (Phillips) and a dance called "La Cachuca" by Mrs Brazier and Mrs Luin.

Sources

Facsimile version of the original 1840 text by Planché, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.632[3]

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Faint_Heart_which_Did_Win_a_Fair_Lady.html?id=XansnQEACAAJ&hl=en&output=html_text&redir_esc=y

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 77

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