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''[[ A Terrible Secret]]'' is a play by W.R. Waldron (William Richard Waldron, fl. 1860s)[].
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''[[ A Terrible Secret]]'' is a play by W.R. Waldron (William Richard Waldron, fl. 1850s-1890s)[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1748372719853234].
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
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The author was a prolific 19th century theatre manager,  actor, director and playwright, who authored or co-authored at least twenty-nine plays. ''[[A Terrible Secret]]'' was apparently first performed on 30 September 1889.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82202008/
 
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82202008/
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Thomas Recchio. 2020. "Embodied Scholarship:
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A Performance History
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of William Richard
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Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh;
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or, The Murder Near
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the Old Mill (1863)", ''Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film''
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2020, Vol. 47(1) 43–67[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1748372719853234]
  
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

Latest revision as of 06:00, 23 June 2021

A Terrible Secret is a play by W.R. Waldron (William Richard Waldron, fl. 1850s-1890s)[1].

The original text

The author was a prolific 19th century theatre manager, actor, director and playwright, who authored or co-authored at least twenty-nine plays. A Terrible Secret was apparently first performed on 30 September 1889.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1867: Performed by "Le Roy's Original Company" in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 28 March and 1 April, with Municipal Muddles, or Love in the Dark (Utting) and My Wife's Second Floor (Morton).

Sources

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82202008/

Thomas Recchio. 2020. "Embodied Scholarship: A Performance History of William Richard Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh; or, The Murder Near the Old Mill (1863)", Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 2020, Vol. 47(1) 43–67[2]

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.221.

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