Henry of Navarre

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Henry of Navarre is a "Romantic Play in Four Acts" by William Devereux (1869 or 1870-1945)[].



The original text

First performed in 1908, then at the New Theatre, London, 1909.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1910: Performed in the Opera House, Cape Town, on 19 April by Leonard Rayne and his company, with a cast that included Amy Coleridge.


Sources

"Henry of Navarre," By William Devereux, at the New Theatre. 1909, photos in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, January 23rd 1909[1]

https://www.bookdepository.com/Henry-Navarre-William-Devereux/9780483963245

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 1932. (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: p.433

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