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1877: Performed by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company at the [[Theatre Royal]], in Cape Town on 3 November, with ''[[The Rickards Combination]]'' as an afterpiece.
 
1877: Performed by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company at the [[Theatre Royal]], in Cape Town on 3 November, with ''[[The Rickards Combination]]'' as an afterpiece.
  
1877: Performed by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company at the [[Theatre Royal]], in Cape Town on 6 November, with Whitebait at Greenwich (Morton).
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1877: Performed by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company at the [[Theatre Royal]], in Cape Town on 6 November, with ''[[Whitebait at Greenwich]]'' (Morton).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
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https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6489669
 
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6489669
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[[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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|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]]: p. 362.
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 362.
 
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 05:59, 30 March 2021

The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care is a play in three acts by George Dibdin Pitt (1799-1855)[1]

The original text

First performed at the City Theatre, Monday, October 8th, 1841, under the management of Cockerton and Shepard.

Published as Vol LXXXVII by Thomas Hailes Lacy (probably 1869), as issue 514 of Dicks' Standard Plays by John Dicks, London (1884), and as Issue 1294 of French's Acting Editions (ca. 1900).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company at the Theatre Royal, in Cape Town on 3 November, with The Rickards Combination as an afterpiece.

1877: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company at the Theatre Royal, in Cape Town on 6 November, with Whitebait at Greenwich (Morton).

Sources

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11423371W/The_beggar%27s_petition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dibdin_Pitt

http://data.bnf.fr/16213032/george_dibdin_pitt/

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6489669

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 1932. (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: p. 362.

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