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''[[Heroes]]'' is a comedy in three acts by Conway Edwardes ()[].
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''[[Heroes]]'' is a comedy in three acts by Conway Edwardes (?-1880)[].
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Published in London by Samuel French [1877?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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"Conway Edwardes", [[The Online Books Page]][https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Edwardes%2C%20Conway%2C%20%2D1880]
  
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

Revision as of 05:41, 3 April 2020

Heroes is a comedy in three acts by Conway Edwardes (?-1880)[].

The original text

Published in London by Samuel French [1877?]) (page images at HathiTrust)

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 15 July, with a song by Miss Wynne and a performance of Andy Blake, or The Irish Diamond (Boucicault). The evening a "Grand Complimentary Benefit" for Captain Roebuck.

1878: Performed again by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 17 July, this time with Poppleton's Predicaments (Roe)


Sources

"Conway Edwardes", The Online Books Page[1]

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.371

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