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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | 1830: Performed in the [[The African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]], South Africa by [[All the World's a Stage]] on 4 September as afterpiece to ''[[George Barnwell, or The London Apprentice]]'' (Lillo) | + | 1830: Performed in the [[The African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]], South Africa by [[All the World's a Stage]] on 4 September as afterpiece to the tragedy ''[[George Barnwell, or The London Apprentice]]'' (Lillo), and is referred to as a "bombastic burletta in one act". |
==A note on the name '''Dr Bolus'''== | ==A note on the name '''Dr Bolus'''== | ||
Revision as of 06:59, 22 July 2016
Doctor Bolus is "a Serio-Comick-Bombastick-Operatick Interlude" in one act, written by George Daniel (1789-1864)[1].
(The play's title is often written Dr Bolus.)
Contents
The original text
First performed in London at the Theatre Royal (the English Opera House, afterwards the Lyceum) on Tuesday, July 21, 1818, it published soon after the performance in 1818 by W. and J. Lowndes, going into two editions.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1830: Performed in the Cape Town Theatre, South Africa by All the World's a Stage on 4 September as afterpiece to the tragedy George Barnwell, or The London Apprentice (Lillo), and is referred to as a "bombastic burletta in one act".
A note on the name Dr Bolus
In any internet search, the name Dr Bolus crops up surprisingly often as a familiar one in the medical and scientific fields, and - in an interesting South African aside, with a theatrical link - it was a Dr Harry Bolus, the Cape Town botanist, who actually paid for the medical training at Guy’s Hospital in London of the revered Afrikaans poet, playwright, paediatrician, botanist, journalist, novelist, cook and connoisseur of food and wine C. Louis Leipoldt. (This relationship is reflected in Leipoldt’s published letters entitled Dear Dr Bolus.)
Sources
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL20384505M/Doctor_Bolus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniel_(writer)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Daniel,_George_(1789-1864)_(DNB00)
Frederick Wilse Bateson. 1940. The Cambridge Bibliography of English literature. Vol. 2. (1660 - 1800)[2 https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Uak8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA666&lpg=PA666&dq=Dr+Bolus+a+play+by+George+Daniel&source=bl&ots=A2VY6jz7LD&sig=k7CDG410TzUL8tonD1drLIRHPNU&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA3sCi4OfMAhXMCcAKHRRZBAIQ6AEIGTAA#v=onepage&q=Dr%20Bolus%20a%20play%20by%20George%20Daniel&f=false]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 215
http://www.cederbergpublishers.co.za/articles/articles/view/leipoldt
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