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''[[The Initials]]'' is a drama in two acts by
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Based on the novel called The Initials: A Story of Modern Life by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus and published
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''Une billet signé d'une initiale''
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:04, 26 April 2020

The Initials is a drama in two acts by

The original text

Based on the novel called The Initials: A Story of Modern Life by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus and published

Une billet signé d'une initiale

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed as in the Cabinet Theatre, Cape Town, on 5 March by the company brought together by Charles Fraser, with Annie Rowlands as one of the cast. Also performed was The Child of the Regiment (Morton) and A Pair of Pigeons ().

Sources

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.127

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