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''[[The Married Rake]]'' is a farce in one act by Charles Selby (1802?-1863)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Selby]. | ''[[The Married Rake]]'' is a farce in one act by Charles Selby (1802?-1863)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Selby]. | ||
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Revision as of 04:52, 23 June 2019
The Married Rake is a farce in one act by Charles Selby (1802?-1863)[1].
In many digital and reprinted versions of the late 20th and early 21st centuries the play is unaccountably referred to as "A Frace". The original published texts all had the term "farce". Probably a perpetuated typing error.
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The original text
First produced at the Queen's Theatre, London, on 9 February, 1835. Published in (along with 5 othe rplays by Charles Selby) by Duncombe & Co. [1845?), by Thomas Hailes Lacy as No 27 of The New British Theatre, in 1835(?), and by Samuel French in 1859.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town by the Le Roy-Duret Company on 11 May, as afterpiece to the "Grand Shakespearian Entertainment" of Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) and The Day after the Wedding (Kemble).
Sources
Facsimile version of the Lacy text, The Internet Archive[2]
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. 204, 311-314, 325.
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