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| − | A comic play in three acts by Douglas Jerrold.
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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | Described as "a nautical melodrama (with all its stock characters) that praises the patriotic British tar (sailor) while critiquing authoritarianism in the British Navy"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Eyed_Susan], it was the playwright's Jerrold's first successful play, opening at the Surrey Theatre on 26 January 1829 and setting a new record of over 150 performances. It is a key play in the history of English melodrama, and became a stock play across the Empire, also in South Africa, till well into the 20th century.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1829: First performed in Cape Town by [[H. Booth]] and local amateurs on 10 November as an afterpiece to [[Pizarro, or The Death of Rolla]] (Sheridan), with Booth as "William".
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Eyed_Susan
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 209,
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| − | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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| − | == Return to ==
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