The Farmer's Story

The Farmer's Story is a domestic drama in three acts by William Bayle Bernard (1807 –1875)[1].

Also found as The Farmer's Story, or The Three Trials of Life

The original text

Performed on 13 June 1836, at the Lyceum Theatre, London.

Published by J. Duncombe & Co. in 1836 (19th-century Playbooks Collection) and later by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1871 and by Dicks, 1883 (as Volume 434 of Dicks' standard plays).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Sefton Parry and his company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

http://webcat.georgian.edu/title/farmers-story-a-domestic-drama-in-three-acts/oclc/711963678/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true

https://www.worldcat.org/title/farmers-story-a-domestic-drama-in-three-acts/oclc/8522672

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

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: pp.203-205

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