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A farce in two acts by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1811 –1856)
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''[[Jack Brag, or A Chandler's Chances]]'' is a farce in two acts by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1811 –1856)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Abbott_%C3%A0_Beckett]
  
 
Also referred to by the name of the novel, i.e. ''[[Jack Brag]]''.
 
Also referred to by the name of the novel, i.e. ''[[Jack Brag]]''.

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Jack Brag, or A Chandler's Chances is a farce in two acts by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1811 –1856)[1]

Also referred to by the name of the novel, i.e. Jack Brag.

The original text

A dramatization of the popular novel Jack Brag by Theodore Edward Hook (1788 –1841), published in 1837 by Richard Bentley.

À’Beckett’s dramatised version was first performed at Saint James's Theatre , London in 1837 and published in the same year by J. Cumberland. ("printed from the acting copy with remarks biographical and critical by D-G.")

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1847: Performed as Jack Brag (and ascribed to Hook) by the Garrison Players in the Garrison Theatre on Friday 17 September as afterpiece to The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hook

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10518851W/Jack_Brag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Abbott_%C3%A0_Beckett

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p. 396

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