Plot and Passion
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.
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The original text
The play was conceived by Lang, then written in collaboration with Taylor, who however later claimed that Lang had only supplied the idea for the plot. Lang later used the same idea when he wrote and published the novel The Secret Police: Or Plot And Passion (1859)[1].
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, ascribed to Taylor alone.
Published as Issue 61 of De Witt's Acting Plays in 1870s, only under Taylor's name and said to be "founded on the French"
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[2]
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Plot_and_Passion.html?id=VgsrvgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
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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