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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1850: Possibly performed by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Amateur Players]] on 9 August as afterpiece to ''[[The Rose of Arragon]]''  (Knowles). (Attributed to Hall though..)
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1850: Possibly performed by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Amateur Players]] on 9 August as afterpiece to ''[[The Rose of Arragon]]''  (Knowles). (Attributed to Hall by the company though..)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 07:15, 6 April 2015

A Farce in One Act by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)


The original text

First performed at Madame Vestris’s Royal Olympic Theatre, January 15 1838. Published in Dicks' standard plays, no. 808 (with A dead shot) and also in Leipsic (sic) by Hartung, 1845 (in Volume 11 of The modern English comic theatre Issue 30 of Webster's acting national drama.)

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1850: Possibly performed by the Garrison Amateur Players on 9 August as afterpiece to The Rose of Arragon (Knowles). (Attributed to Hall by the company though..)

Sources

Facsimile of the 1845 edition, Google eBook[1]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 399,

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