The Man Who Was

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The Man Who Was is a tale by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [1] and a play by Kinsey Peile (1862–1934)[2], based on the story.

Not to be confused with "The Man Who Was Thursday", by G.K. Chesterton


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.

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

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

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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