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A Farce, in One Act by Benjamin Webster. Adapted from the French play Ma Femme et mon Parapluie, 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).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Google Books[1]
Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[2]
Bosman, 1928: pp 398
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