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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Fagan
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Fagan

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The Prayer of the Sword is a play in five acts by James Bernard Fagan (1873-1933)[1]

The original text

Written and performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, in 1904. Published by R. Brimley Johnston, London, in 1904.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1905: Performed in South Africa by Leonard Rayne and his company as part of a season of plays, inter alia playing in the Opera House, Cape Town.

Sources

Facsimile version of the original published text, the Internet Archive[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Fagan

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 1932. (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: p.422

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