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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
Text of play (1806 version)[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Love_%C3%A0_la_mode_a_farce_Adapted.html?id=VgMJAAAAQAAJ&redir_esc=y]
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Facsimile Version of the 1806 version of the text, Google E-book[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Love_%C3%A0_la_mode_a_farce_Adapted.html?id=VgMJAAAAQAAJ&redir_esc=y]
  
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin

Revision as of 06:28, 16 April 2017

Love à la Mode is a comic satire in two acts by Charles Macklin (1699–1797)[1]

Also found as Love à-la-Mode and Love a la Mode

The original text

First played: 1759 at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. First published: 1779.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1807: Performed in Cape Town on 29 August by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith).

1824: Performed in Cape Town on 10 April by the English Theatricals amateur company in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook).

1853: Performed in Grahamstown on Tuesday 11 October by the Garrison Players in the Theatre Royal, with as afterpiece The Three Clerks (Oxberry).

Sources

Facsimile Version of the 1806 version of the text, Google E-book[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin

http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/70_mack_love.html

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 73, 198, 507

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