The Married Rake

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.

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(?), Turner and Fisher (New York, circa 1840) 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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