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A story called "The Cobbler and the Marquis" was serialized in the ''Auckland Star'' during 1886[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18860925.2.27]
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A story called "The Cobbler and the Marquis" by R.A. Bullen was serialized in the ''Auckland Star'' during 1886[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18860925.2.27]
  
  

Revision as of 04:58, 7 August 2019

The Marriage of Pride, or The Marquis and the Cobbler is a light comedy by an unknown author.

Also found as The Marquis and the Cobbler

The original text

A story called "The Cobbler and the Marquis" by R.A. Bullen was serialized in the Auckland Star during 1886[1]


Allardyce Nicoll (2009) provides two possible dates for performances of the play the Grecian Theatre, London, i.e. 14/9/1854 and 21/6/1860.

Translations and adaptations

1884-5: Performed as The Marquis and the Cobbler by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.

Performance history in South Africa

1884-5: Performed as Uncle's Will by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.

Sources

The Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 226, 25 September, 1886[2]


Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. History of English Drama, 1660-1900 (Volume 5, Part 2), Cambridge University Press: p. 716[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 1923. (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. 380


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