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''[[The Belle of the Village]]'' is a "grand ballet divertissement" based on Lord Byron.   
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''[[The Belle of the Village]]'' is a "grand ballet divertissement" based on a play by H.J. Byron.   
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Based on Lord Byron's ''Rosebud of Stinging-nettle Farm''
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Based on Henry J. Byron's ''[[Rosebud of Stingingnettle Farm, or the Villanous Squire and the Virtuous Villager]]''
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosebud-Stingingnettle-Villanous-virtuous-villager/dp/124117959X
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 192
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 192

Revision as of 05:47, 3 April 2018

The Belle of the Village is a "grand ballet divertissement" based on a play by H.J. Byron.

The original text

Based on Henry J. Byron's Rosebud of Stingingnettle Farm, or the Villanous Squire and the Virtuous Villager

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1865: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 4 December by the Ray and Cooper company, with The Lonely Man of the Ocean

Sources

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosebud-Stingingnettle-Villanous-virtuous-villager/dp/124117959X

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 192


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