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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Published by [[Samuel French]], 1900
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Published by [[Samuel French]] as Issue 2195 of French's acting edition, 1900.
 
 
 
 
A series of letters from John Coleman and Robert Buchanan appeared in ''The Era'' in August 1890, concerning the original source of the play.
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:04, 28 October 2019

Jane is a farce in three acts by Harry Nicholls and William Lestocq

The original text

Published by Samuel French as Issue 2195 of French's acting edition, 1900.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1892: Performed as The English Rose in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, by the visiting Emilie Bevan Comedy Company as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.

Sources

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: pp.203-205

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