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''[[Love's Sacrifice, or The Rival Merchants]]'' is a play in five acts by George William Lovell ()[].
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''[[Love's Sacrifice, or The Rival Merchants]]'' is a play in five acts by George William Lovell (1804–1878)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lovell,_George_William_(DNB00)].
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
  
First performed in London at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in 1842 and at the Bowery Theatre, New York in 1843.  
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First performed in London at Covent Garden on 12 September, 1842, under Charles Kemble's management,  and at the Bowery Theatre, New York in 1843.  
  
 
Published in New York by W. Taylor, 1847 (as No XII of the ''Modern Standard Drama'' series).
 
Published in New York by W. Taylor, 1847 (as No XII of the ''Modern Standard Drama'' series).

Revision as of 07:02, 6 August 2020

Love's Sacrifice, or The Rival Merchants is a play in five acts by George William Lovell (1804–1878)[1].

The original text

First performed in London at Covent Garden on 12 September, 1842, under Charles Kemble's management, and at the Bowery Theatre, New York in 1843.

Published in New York by W. Taylor, 1847 (as No XII of the Modern Standard Drama series).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed by the Disney Roebuck Company in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town, on 19 and 21 July.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1847 American text, Google E-book[2]

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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