Difference between revisions of "The Patent Ramoneur Company"

From ESAT
Jump to navigation Jump to search
 
Line 5: Line 5:
 
No reference to a play by this name has been found.  
 
No reference to a play by this name has been found.  
  
The title may in fact have been  reference an actual company, formed, according the prospectus, "for the purpose of cleansing chimneys with the Patent Ramoneur Machine, and introducing various other improvements in the business of chimney sweeping. Chimneys are daily swept with this machine where others have failed" (cited in Mayhew, 1851[https://dl.tufts.edu/teiviewer/parent/rv043431c/chapter/c8s6]).
+
The title may in fact have been  reference an actual company of the name, formed, according the prospectus, "for the purpose of cleansing chimneys with the Patent Ramoneur Machine, and introducing various other improvements in the business of chimney sweeping. Chimneys are daily swept with this machine where others have failed" (cited in Mayhew, 1851[https://dl.tufts.edu/teiviewer/parent/rv043431c/chapter/c8s6]).
  
Perhaps what [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980, p. 282) lists as a "performance" was simply a live demonstration/advert done by a local agent in Cape Town?
+
Perhaps what [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980, p. 282) lists as a "performance" was simply an advertisement on the programme, or else a live demonstration/advert done by a local agent in Cape Town?
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Latest revision as of 06:07, 31 December 2020

The Patent Ramoneur Company is a piece by an unknown author.

The original text

No reference to a play by this name has been found.

The title may in fact have been reference an actual company of the name, formed, according the prospectus, "for the purpose of cleansing chimneys with the Patent Ramoneur Machine, and introducing various other improvements in the business of chimney sweeping. Chimneys are daily swept with this machine where others have failed" (cited in Mayhew, 1851[1]).

Perhaps what F.C.L. Bosman (1980, p. 282) lists as a "performance" was simply an advertisement on the programme, or else a live demonstration/advert done by a local agent in Cape Town?

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1865: Performed as part of a benefit for victims of the great storm that had recently (in May) raged by what could be referred to as the Robben Island Amateurs - a cast probably made up of inmates and staff members of the asylum on Robben Island[2]). Also part of the programme were Did I Dream It? (Wooler) and Fearful Tragedy in the Seven Dials (Selby).

Sources

Henry Mayhew. 1851. London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, Tufts Digital Library[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.282

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Return to

Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays

Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays

Return to PLAYS III: Collections

Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances

Return to South African Festivals and Competitions

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page