The Momentous Question

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The Momentous Question is a domestic drama, in two acts, by Edward Fitzball ()[].

Also found as The Momentous Question, or Woman's Devotion

The original text

Based on a story from George Crabbe's Tales of the Hall (1820), the play was first performed as The Momentous Question in the Lyceum Theatre, London , in 1844 and later in the Federal Street Theatre in Boston in 1847.


Published in Boston by W.V. Spencer, 1856.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as The Momentous Question, or Woman's Devotion by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

Facsimile version of the text, HathiTrust Digital Library[1]

The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, "A Magazine of Literature and Fashion"Volume 21, July-December, 1844: p. 60, Google E-Book[2].

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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