Ixion, or The Man at the Wheel
Ixion, or The Man at the Wheel is an "Original Extravaganza" by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917)[].
Contents
The original text
First performed at the New Royalty Theatre, London, on 28 September, 1863, and published as a Lacy's Acting Edition by T.H. Lacy in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1865: According to a reviewer in The Cape Argus of 28 December, 1865, Burnand's play was partly plagiarized in the opening scene ("The Depths of Darkness, and Mystic Still and Laboratory of the Demon Alcohol") of the hugely extravagant Christmas Pantomime of Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin A.B.C., created and put on by Ray and Cooper in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 26-7 December.
1866:
Sources
Facsimile version of the original 1863 text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.199
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