The Manxman

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The Manxman is a play by Wilson Barrett ()[]


The original text

Based on the novel by Hall Caine ()[], which first appeared as a serial in The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper and Court Chronicle between January and July 1894. It was then published as one volume in August 1894 by Heinemann.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manxman_(novel)

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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