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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Based on the popular novel published in 1887 by American author Archibald Clavering Gunter, the adaption as a stage play  was done in 1888, and .
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The play is based on the popular novel published in 1887 by American author Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Clavering_Gunter], telling of the European travels and adventures of Burton H. Barnes, including a romance with an English girl and involvement in a Corsican vendetta. The adaption as a stage play  was done by in 1888, and .
 
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:28, 18 April 2020

Mr Barnes of New York is a play by Hal Collier-Edwards ()[].

The original text

The play is based on the popular novel published in 1887 by American author Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847-1907)[1], telling of the European travels and adventures of Burton H. Barnes, including a romance with an English girl and involvement in a Corsican vendetta. The adaption as a stage play was done by in 1888, and .

Translations and adaptations

Two silent film versions were also made of the novel.

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

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.391

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