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''[[The Man Who Was]]'' is a tale by [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1865-1936) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling] and a play by Kinsey Peile (1862–1934)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Peile#:~:text=Kinsey%20Peile%20(1862%E2%80%931934),born%20in%20Allahabad%2C%20British%20India], based on the story.  
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''[[The Man Who Was]]'' is a play by Kinsey Peile (1862–1934)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Peile#:~:text=Kinsey%20Peile%20(1862%E2%80%931934),born%20in%20Allahabad%2C%20British%20India].  
  
''Not to be confused with "The Man Who Was Thursday", by G.K. Chesterton''
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==The original text==
  
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Based on the eponymous story by [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1865-1936) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling], that first appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine of April 1890 and Harper’s Weekly on 15 April the same year.
  
This story first appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine of April 1890 and Harper’s Weekly on 15 April the same year. Collected in Life’s Handicap and published in the United States of America in a volume called Mine Own People in 1891.
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Peile's stage adaptation was first performed at Drury Lane in London in 1907 after which Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917) toured with it in theatres and music-halls, playing the part of "Limmason".  
 
 
Frederick Kinsey Peile (1862-1934) adapted it for the stage and it was performed at Drury Lane in London in 1907: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917) toured with it in theatres and music-halls, playing the part of Limmason.  
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
 
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1906: Performed as part of his repertoire by [[William Haviland]] and his company while on tour, appearing in the Opera House, Cape Town in July and August. 
1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:53, 27 August 2020

The Man Who Was is a play by Kinsey Peile (1862–1934)[1].

The original text

Based on the eponymous story by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [2], that first appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine of April 1890 and Harper’s Weekly on 15 April the same year.

Peile's stage adaptation was first performed at Drury Lane in London in 1907 after which Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917) toured with it in theatres and music-halls, playing the part of "Limmason".

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1906: Performed as part of his repertoire by William Haviland and his company while on tour, appearing in the Opera House, Cape Town in July and August.

Sources

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_manwhowas1.htm

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

"Kinsey Peile" In: Wikipedia[3].


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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