Modern Wives

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Modern Wives is a play by E. Warren ()[]

Not to be confused with Modern Wife (J. Stevens, 1744)

The original text

First performed in 1887.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1900: Performed in Daly's English version as A Night Off by the Herbert Flemming Company as part of an extended season in the Opera House, Cape Town.

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.614[1]

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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