The Married Bachelor, or Master and Man

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The Married Bachelor, or Master and Man is a one-act farce by P.P. O'Callaghan.


The original text

Published in one volume as with My Neigbour's Wifeby Alfred Bunn (1796 – 1860). Published in 1882 by J. Dicks, London.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1830: Performed on 3 July by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre (i.e. the African Theatre), as afterpiece to Romeo and Juliet. (The author listed as "O'Calligan" by Bosman, 1928 - possibly misspelled by his source or the company.)

1830 Performed on 11 September by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre, as afterpiece to The Honey Moon (Tobin)

1832: Performed on 9 June by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre (i.e. the African Theatre), with Bombastes Furioso, or The King of Utopia (Rhodes) as afterpieces to The Maid and the Magpie, or Who's the Thief!!! (Pocock).


Sources

https://archive.org/stream/myneighbourswife00bunnuoft#page/10/mode/2up

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 214, 215, 222

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