Jessy Vere, or The Return of the Wanderer

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Jessy Vere, or The Return of the Wanderer is a domestic drama in two acts by C.H. Hazlewood (1823-1875)[1]

Also known as Jessie Vere ; as The Return of the Wanderer ; and (possibly) as The Wanderer's Return.

The original text

First produced in 1856 at the Britannia Saloon, where it had a long run.

Published in Thomas Hailes Lacy's series Acting Edition of Plays in 1856.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1865: Performed in the Theatre Royal on 23 and 26 October by Ray and Cooper, with the help of local "Gentlemen Amateurs", with as afterpiece The Area Belle (Brough and Halliday).

1884-5: Boonzaier (1923) refers to a play called The Wanderer’s Return that was performed by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue. It is probably an inaccurate reference to (or adaptation of) Hazlewood's play.

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Jessy_Vere_or_The_return_of_the_wanderer.html?id=z1AWAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Henry_Hazlewood

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 1923. (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.325, 365

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