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''[[Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War]]'' is a musical comedy, in two acts, by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone]
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Also found with the titles '''''[[Josephine, the Child of the Regiment]]''''' ; '''''[[The Child of the Regiment]]''''' and  '''''[[The Daughter of the Regiment]]'''''.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
An adaptation from ''[[La Fille du Regiment]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment] (''[[La Figlia del Reggimento]]''), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), with a French libretto by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, ‎Jean François Alfred Bayard. It was first performed in French on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.
 
 
 
Buckstone based his work on the French version, but may have seen it in the English version at the Surrey Theatre, London, on 21 December, 1847. (The Italian version had been played at Her Majesty's Theatre, London,  on 27 May, 1847).
 
 
 
The play was first performed as ''[[Josephine, the Child of the Regiment]]'' at Theatre Royal, Haymarket and first published in London by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in 1856.
 
 
 
It was - somewhat confusingly - sometimes called ''[[The Daughter of the Regiment]]'' by some companies, (for example it was played with this title on August 19, 1872, by the Rotunda Vaudeville Company in Liverpool, and in South Africa during the 1880s).
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
 
 
W.S. Gilbert wrote a [[burlesque]] adaptation of the Donizetti opera, called ''[[La Vivandière]]'', in 1867.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1860: Performed early in the year as ''[[The Child of the Regiment]]'' in the [[Cabinet Theatre]], Cape Town, by the company brought together by [[Charles Fraser]], with [[Annie Rowlands]] as one of the cast.
 
 
 
1885: Performed as ''[[The Daughter of the Regiment]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, produced by Mr [[H.C. Sidney]] and partner Mr [[H.J. Fiedler]] during the course of the year.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1856 text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://archive.org/details/josephinechildof00buck/page/n1]
 
 
 
Leonard R.N. Ashley. 1983. "Buckstone, John Baldwin" in ''The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel''. Macmillan International Higher Education: pp.62-5[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=pkBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=The+child+of+the+regiment,+or+The+Fortune+of+War+Buckstone&source=bl&ots=P6QmC0GW7L&sig=YPgPb2DVJKhUHzN_HOITnB8S5F4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUoJb1iKvfAhUCfxoKHbpCCVgQ6AEwEHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20child%20of%20the%20regiment%2C%20or%20The%20Fortune%20of%20War%20Buckstone&f=false]
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone
 
 
 
''The London Illustrated News'', 9 March 1844, p. 155[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=2LJLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=Josephine,+the+Child+of+the+Regiment,+or+The+Fortune+of+War+Donizetti&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwk6r8jKvfAhVHSxoKHcrCDPgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Josephine%2C%20the%20Child%20of%20the%20Regiment%2C%20or%20The%20Fortune%20of%20War%20Donizetti&f=true]
 
 
 
Gaetano Donizetti. ''Donizetti's Opera, "[[La Fille du Regiment]]"'', Italian and English texts, O. Ditson & Company, 1859 [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=kz-zAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=La+Fille+du+Regiment+par+Donizetti&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=La%20Fille%20du%20Regiment%20par%20Donizetti&f=false]
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 127-8,
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique
 
 
 
Facsimile version of Lacy's 1856 text, The [[Internet Archive]][https://archive.org/details/josephinechildof00buck/page/n2]
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
 
 
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10352199
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the "Monthly Critic and Miscellany" (p.52) in ''The Court magazine and belle assemblée [afterw.] and monthly critic and the Lady's magazine and museum'', (Volume 24), Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=mUAFAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA52&lpg=RA2-PA52&dq=The+Daughter+of+the+Regiment+Donizetti+Buckstone&source=bl&ots=znBeF9q8j4&sig=ACfU3U3uZgL2Uz9sVZgiBTBBhCRGmZzL0A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9t67qx-XiAhWUonEKHWbLCQUQ6AEwD3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Daughter%20of%20the%20Regiment%20Donizetti%20Buckstone&f=false]
 
 
 
R.J. Broadbent. 1969. ''Annals of the Liverpool Stage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time''.  B. Blom: p.295 [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=czJmlUfBzNQC&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=The+Daughter+of+the+Regiment+Buckstone&source=bl&ots=pqt0367n0z&sig=ACfU3U3E_hyjt_Spg4wUp7PReGzH9ESJgw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjimvzPwOXiAhUTtnEKHeDyByIQ6AEwDXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Daughter%20of%20the%20Regiment%20Buckstone&f=false]
 
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.381.
 
 
 
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