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| − | ''[[The Amorous Widow, or The Wanton Wife]]'' is a comedy by is a farce in two acts by Thomas Betterton (1635?-1710)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Betterton].
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | It is an English adaptation of Moliere's ''[[George Dandin]]''.
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| − | First performed under this title by Her Majesty's servants and published in London, 1710.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Betterton's play was itself adapted again and first performed as ''[[Barnaby Brittle, or A Wife at Her Wit's End ]]'' at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Published under that title in London by G. Kearsly, 1782.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1817: Performed as ''[[Barnaby Brittle]]'' in the "[[The African Theatre]]" on 5 July by the [[Garrison Players]], as afterpiece to ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', with [[Captain Carter]] as "Shylock".
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004861680.0001.000?view=toc
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| − | https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8772410
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Betterton
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| − | Charles Gildon. 1710. ''The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider'd.'' Robert Gosling, 1710 (Contains the 1710 text of ''The Amorous Widow'')[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=tKcNAAAAQAAJ&dq=Amorous+Widow+Betterton&hl=af&source=gbs_navlinks_s]
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 150,
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