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Revision as of 06:52, 26 July 2021
Smiles and Tears, or The Widow's Stratagem is a comedy in five acts by Marie Thérèse Kemble (1774-1838)[] and Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853)[].
Also found simply as Smiles and Tears or The Widow's Stratagem.
Not to be confused with the 1808 comedy Tears and Smiles by J. N. Barker.[1]
Contents
The original text
According to the foreword by Mrs Kemble, the serious part of the play was inspired by a story published in 1809 called Father and Daughter by Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853)[] (who is credited as co-author of the play in many sources), while some of the lighter scenes derive from an 1813 French comedy in once act, La Suite d'un Bal Masqué[2] by M. François (pseudonym of Alexandrine Sophie Goury de Champgrand Bawr)[3]
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 12 December, 1815 by the Kemble company, and published in London by John Miller in 1815.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1863: A piece called The Widow's Stratagem (possibly shortened/adapted, for it was seemingly billed as a "sketch") was performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Mr Bowmer and Madame Bowmer as part of one of the Grand Concerts and Entertainments put on by a company of visiting entertainers led by J.F. Finlayson, as compère and musical director.
Sources
Facsimile version of the original published text of Smiles and Tears, or The Widow's Stratagem, Hathi Trust Digital Library[4]
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupid?key=ha001024014
Facsimile version of the original published text of [[]][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bawr
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001027050
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496892/
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.187
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