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Performed at the Haymarket Theatre as ''[[Agnes de Vere]]'', London in 1834, with the author in the cast.
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Performed as ''[[Agnes de Vere]]'' at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1834, with the author in the cast.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:15, 13 August 2017

Agnes de Vere, or A Wife’s Revenge, is a pathetic drama in three acts by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1].


The original text

Performed as Agnes de Vere at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1834, with the author in the cast.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1859: Performed by Sefton Parry in the Harrington Street Theatre on 5 December. Billed as "a pathetic drama in Three Acts", with a Spanish dance as interlude and The Happy Man, or The Legend of the - (Lover), a one act burlesque act.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 78.


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