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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
First performed in 1858, in February at The Lyceum Theatre, London  and in the USA at The Boston Theatre and the Howard Athenaeum in the same year. Published in London by T.H. Lacy, and in Boston by W.V. Spencer (Spencers Boston Theatre No CLXI)[1858?]
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First performed in 1858, in February at The Lyceum Theatre, London  and in the USA at The Boston Theatre and the Howard Athenaeum in the same year. Published in London by T.H. Lacy, and in Boston by W.V. Spencer (Spencers Boston Theatre No CLXI) [1858?]
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:48, 10 October 2018

A Hard Struggle is a domestic drama in one act by Westland Marston ()[].

Also referred to as a "dramatic sketch". The title sometimes occurs (wrongly) as The Hard Struggle.


The original text

First performed in 1858, in February at The Lyceum Theatre, London and in the USA at The Boston Theatre and the Howard Athenaeum in the same year. Published in London by T.H. Lacy, and in Boston by W.V. Spencer (Spencers Boston Theatre No CLXI) [1858?]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

http://www.worldcat.org/title/hard-struggle-a-domestic-drama-in-one-act/oclc/8797278

Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: p. 103, [1]

Facsimile version of the Spencer edition, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]


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


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