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Published as ''[[All that Glitters is not Gold]]'' by London : T.H. Lacy in 1851 and in New York by William Taylor, 1851  
 
Published as ''[[All that Glitters is not Gold]]'' by London : T.H. Lacy in 1851 and in New York by William Taylor, 1851  
Published under this title by Samuel French as well and as Dicks' Standard Plays: no.1054. Published as ''[[All that Glitters is not Gold, or The Poor Girl's Diary]]'' by the School Publishing Company, Darrowville, Ohio.
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Published under this title by Samuel French as well and as Dicks' Standard Plays: no.1054. Published as ''[[All that Glitters is not Gold, or The Poor Girl's Diary]]'' by the School Publishing Company, Darrowville, Ohio and as Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, Publisher .
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:31, 9 September 2017

All that Glitters is not Gold is a comic drama in two acts by Thomas Morton (1764-1838)[] and John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[].

This piece also published as All that Glitters is not Gold, or The Poor Girl's Diary (e.g by the School Publishing Company, Darrowville, Ohio), The Factory Girl, or, All that Glitters is not Gold or simply The Factory Girl.

Not to be confused with the play All is not Gold that Glisters by Henry Chettle and Samuel Rowley.


The original text

Said to be "adapted from the French", it was first performed at the Olympic Theatre, London, on January 13, 1851, with Mrs. Stirling as "Martha Gibb". It was first played in New York Broadway Theatre, March, 1851 and later at the Bowery Theatre, 1851.

Published as All that Glitters is not Gold by London : T.H. Lacy in 1851 and in New York by William Taylor, 1851 Published under this title by Samuel French as well and as Dicks' Standard Plays: no.1054. Published as All that Glitters is not Gold, or The Poor Girl's Diary by the School Publishing Company, Darrowville, Ohio and as Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, Publisher .

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1851 text of All that Glitters is not Gold by Taylor, Hathitrust Digital Library[1]

Facsimile version of All that Glitters is not Gold, or The Poor Girl's Diary, Hathitrust Digital Library[2]

Facsimile version of the 1851 text of All that Glitters is not Gold by Samuel French, Hathitrust Digital Library[3]

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


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