Plot and Passion

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Plot and Passion is a detective play by Tom Taylor and John Lang (1816-1864)

Also found as Plot and Passion, or The Female Gambler.

The original text

Published in 1853 as Plot and Passion, "An Original Drama, in Three Acts" as Volume 13 of Lacy's Acting Editions, by T.H. Lacy. .

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed at the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as Plot and Passion by the Le Roy and Duret company on 3 September, with Behind Time (Morton).

Sources

L. Sussex. 2010. Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction, Springer[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.212, 215.

William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

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