The Man of Many Friends

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The Man of Many Friends is an original comedy in three acts by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[1]


Not to be confused with Coyne's three act drama called Everybody's Friend and later known as The Widow Hunt .

The original text

Performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on 1 September 1855, and published by T.H. Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed in the Cabinet Theatre, Cape Town, by the Cape Town Dramatic Club on 1 October with Two Heads are Better than One (Horne), with Railway Overture by the Corps of S.A. Minstrels.

1860: Performed in the Cabinet Theatre, Cape Town, by the Cape Town Dramatic Club on 9 October: Two Heads are Better than One (Horne) with Railway Overture by the Corps of S.A. Minstrels and an interlude of songs such as Lord Lovell etc. by a "lady from London". This performance took place in the Theatre Royal under the patronage of the Governor of the Cape.

Sources

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Coyne,_Joseph_Stirling_(DNB00)

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[2]

http://www.worldcat.org/title/everybodys-friend-an-original-comedy-in-three-acts/oclc/8543414

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.154, 156

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