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Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/My_Young_Wife_and_My_Old_Umbrella_A_Farc.html?id=G28ZMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
 
Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/My_Young_Wife_and_My_Old_Umbrella_A_Farc.html?id=G28ZMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
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Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2659511]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 398
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 398

Revision as of 09:14, 10 September 2013

A Farce, in One Act by Benjamin Webster. Adapted from the French play by M. Laurencin, I.e. P.A. Chapelle].


English text first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket and published 1837.


First published in London by .

Performance history in South Africa

Performed, (possibly under the title My New Wife and my Old Umbrella, and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the Garrison Players ( a group locally known as Captain Hall's Company) in Cape Town on 8 May 1850, as an afterpiece to Richelieu, or The Conspiracy (Bulwer-Lytton).


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Google Books[1]


Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[2]

Bosman, 1928: pp 398

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