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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Performed on 12 July, 1875 at the Grecian Theatre, London.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 11:21, 8 August 2019

Dead to the World is a play by George Conquest (1837-1901)[1] and Henry Pettitt (1843-1898)[2].

The original text

Performed on 12 July, 1875 at the Grecian Theatre, London.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1884-5: Performed by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.

Sources

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 1923. (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: pp.325

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