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| − | This is one of three works written (or at least co-written) by Henry J. Byron, all based on Defoe's novel ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''. | + | This is one of three works written (or at least co-written) by Henry J. Byron, all based on Defoe's novel ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''. The others are a burlesque called ''[[Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!]]''(1860) and a pantomime called ''[[Robinson Crusoe, or Friday and the Fairies]]''(1868). |
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:52, 2 May 2018
Robinson Crusoe, or The Injun Bride and the Injured Wife is a burlesque written by W.S. Gilbert, Henry J. Byron, Thomas Hood, H. S. Leigh, and Arthur Sketchley.
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The original text
This is one of three works written (or at least co-written) by Henry J. Byron, all based on Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. The others are a burlesque called Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!(1860) and a pantomime called Robinson Crusoe, or Friday and the Fairies(1868).
First produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 6 July 1867.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Andrew Crowther. 2000. Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert'. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press.[1]
D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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