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''[[A Royal Family]]'' is a play by [[Captain Robert Marshall]] (1863–1910)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marshall_(dramatist)]
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''[[A Royal Family]]'' is a play in three acts by [[Captain Robert Marshall]] (1863–1910)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marshall_(dramatist)]
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
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Subtitled "a Comedy of Romance", it was originally written and probably performed in 1898, while he was stationed in South Africa as  aide-de-camp to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of [[Natal]].
  
 
Published in London by Chiswick Press, 1904.
 
Published in London by Chiswick Press, 1904.

Revision as of 06:16, 16 April 2021

A Royal Family is a play in three acts by Captain Robert Marshall (1863–1910)[1]

The original text

Subtitled "a Comedy of Romance", it was originally written and probably performed in 1898, while he was stationed in South Africa as aide-de-camp to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal.

Published in London by Chiswick Press, 1904.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1901: Performed by the Sass and Nelson Company in the Opera House, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays that opened on 11 May.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marshall_(dramatist)

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.409

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