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''[[Black-Eyed Susan, or The Little Bill That Was Taken Up]]'' is a burlesque by Burnand.
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''[[The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan, or The Little Bill That Was Taken Up]]'' is a burlesque by Francis Cowley Burnand ()[]
  
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Also known as ''[[Black-Eyed Susan, or The Little Bill That Was Taken Up]]'' .
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
 
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A burlesque of Jerrold's popular melodrama ''[[Black-Eyed Susan]]'', first performed in the New Royalty Theatre in Soho, London, on 29 November, 1866 and published by the Strand Printing and Publishing Company, 1867.
A burlesque of Jerrold's popular melodrama ''[[Black-Eyed Susan]]'',
 
 
    
 
    
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
 
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Facsimile version of the 1867 text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ts5ZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.

Revision as of 08:05, 20 April 2018

The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan, or The Little Bill That Was Taken Up is a burlesque by Francis Cowley Burnand ()[]

Also known as Black-Eyed Susan, or The Little Bill That Was Taken Up .

The original text

A burlesque of Jerrold's popular melodrama Black-Eyed Susan, first performed in the New Royalty Theatre in Soho, London, on 29 November, 1866 and published by the Strand Printing and Publishing Company, 1867.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 10 and 12 April and billed as a "new Burlesque", with Aurora Floyd (Braddon).

1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 13 April and billed as a "Naughty-Gal-Burlesque", with Black Sheep (Yates).


Sources

Facsimile version of the 1867 text, Google E-book[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.


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