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| − | ''[[Le bossu]]'' a drama in five acts and eight tableaux by Anicet Bourgeois and Paul Féval.
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | The play is set in France during the early eighteenth century, and has a complicated and melodramatic plot that involves among other things a murdered duke, the rescue of his infant daughter by ‘a wild daredevil’, a villainous prince’s scheme to secure the child’s inheritance, his hunchbacked henchman, gypsies on the Spanish border, and an Irish soldier of fortune.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Adapted in English as ''[[The Duke's Motto, or I Am Here!]]'', a play in a prologue and four acts by John Brougham (1814-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brougham] and first presented with that title at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Saturday 10 January 1863, with Charles Fechter as leading actor.
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| − | Only published by C. Whiting in 1870, now named ''[[The Duke's Motto]]'', and referred to as "a romantic drama in three acts, and a prologue". Though credited to John Brougham, the publication has the phrase "Adapted By, and the Property Of, Charles Fechter" on the title page.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Duke_s_Motto_A_Romantic_Drama_In_Thr.html?id=bCW5IBEwHkUC&redir_esc=y
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| − | http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Charles-Fechter-in-'The-Duke's-Motto'-126159.htm
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| − | David Neumeyer. 2014. ''The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies'', Oxford University Press: pp. 565-6.[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=sWdBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA565&lpg=PA565&dq=The+Duke%27s+Motto+a+play+by+Brougham&source=bl&ots=XeMLLeCbiL&sig=ACfU3U1iDWlSTcZc9pdXgtyPwpN0JJ6JWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMgtWMzfXjAhVLURUIHaAUBXkQ6AEwC3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Duke's%20Motto%20a%20play%20by%20Brougham&f=false]
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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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.325
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