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==The original text == | ==The original text == | ||
Usually indicated as written by an Anonymous author in most copies of the play on sale today. However, in a list of "Dramatic Works published by C.Chapple.." in the back of the published text of ''[[My wife or My Place]]'' (Shannon and Thackeray, C. Chapple: 1831), a play by this name is listed as having been written by "J.B.Pulham" and available at a price of "1s 6d"[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=F5wNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=Reformation.+A+comic+interlude+in+one+act&source=bl&ots=oOKZDUrOPJ&sig=Dit-8-zVOD2TWRBT5dIyvRX08hk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qy8_VfTmOuGc7AabyICwBw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Reformation.%20A%20comic%20interlude%20in%20one%20act&f=false] | Usually indicated as written by an Anonymous author in most copies of the play on sale today. However, in a list of "Dramatic Works published by C.Chapple.." in the back of the published text of ''[[My wife or My Place]]'' (Shannon and Thackeray, C. Chapple: 1831), a play by this name is listed as having been written by "J.B.Pulham" and available at a price of "1s 6d"[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=F5wNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=Reformation.+A+comic+interlude+in+one+act&source=bl&ots=oOKZDUrOPJ&sig=Dit-8-zVOD2TWRBT5dIyvRX08hk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qy8_VfTmOuGc7AabyICwBw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Reformation.%20A%20comic%20interlude%20in%20one%20act&f=false] | ||
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| + | In ''The Tatler'' No 241 of Saterday June 11, 1831[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=H6A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA964&lpg=PA964&dq=Reformation.+A+comic+interlude+in+one+act&source=bl&ots=GA4uZJB4OG&sig=2MWQmF2WNjxkpd7AyPizeJIpZfY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qy8_VfTmOuGc7AabyICwBw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Reformation.%20A%20comic%20interlude%20in%20one%20act&f=false] on the other hand, a playbill from the Queen's Theatre is reproduced which claims the authorship for a Mr Bernard. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 09:34, 28 April 2015
A comic interlude in one act. The authorship of this work is very uncertain, it being credited, depending on the source, to an Anonymous author, a J.B.Pulham, or a Mr Bernard.
Contents
The original text
Usually indicated as written by an Anonymous author in most copies of the play on sale today. However, in a list of "Dramatic Works published by C.Chapple.." in the back of the published text of My wife or My Place (Shannon and Thackeray, C. Chapple: 1831), a play by this name is listed as having been written by "J.B.Pulham" and available at a price of "1s 6d"[1]
In The Tatler No 241 of Saterday June 11, 1831[2] on the other hand, a playbill from the Queen's Theatre is reproduced which claims the authorship for a Mr Bernard.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1828: Produced in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the English Theatrical Amateur Company on 9 May, as a benefit for Mrs Black, as an interlude between The Mogul Tale, or The Descent of the Balloon (Inchbald) and Trick for Trick, or The Admiral's Daughter (Anonymous).
Sources
Facsimile version of a list of Dramatic Works published by C.Chapple in My wife or My Place (Shannon and Thackeray, 1831): Google eBook[3]
http://www.amazon.com/Reformation-comic-interlude-prose-etc/dp/1241033692
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 201,
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