A Glorious Case

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A Glorious Case is a comedy in two acts by J.H. Stocqueler (1801-1886)[1]

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: Performed as A Glorious Case by Clara Tellett and her Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 17 July, with a performance of the comic song "Bob Ridley" and the melodrama The Idiot Witness or A Tale of Blood (Haines).

Sources

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.131

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