Difference between revisions of "Kockincoz or The Pettifogging Lawyer's Plot"

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by [[C. E. Boniface]]. A one-act play written in 1843, it was Boniface's first play in English, and perhaps the first written and performed in the Cape. An attack on Mr [[J.J. de Kock]], a friend with whom Boniface had a quarrel. The title refers directly to de Kock and his company as well as the French word coquin (= rogue). The play is about three lawyers (one representing de Kock) who try to trick the legal system and fail miserably. Reprinted in the [[Willem Hiddingh Reprint Series]] (No 11) 1956 ([[University of Cape Town Library]] and [[South African Library]]).  
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See ''' [[Kockincoz, or The Pettifogging Lawyer's Plot]]''' by [[C. E. Boniface]].  
 
 
  
 
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