The Prayer of the Sword
The Prayer of the Sword is a play in five acts by James Bernard Fagan (1873-1933)[1]
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The original text
Written and performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 19 September, 1904, with incidental music composed by Franco Leoni (1864-1949)[2]. The play published by R. Brimley Johnston, London, in 1904.
The play is described by Allardyce Nicoll (1973:p.292) as a "rather bombastic blank-verse religious play"
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[3]
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
Allardyce Nicoll. 1973. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period Cambridge University Press
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