The Queen of the Abruzzi
The Queen of the Abruzzi is a drama in one act by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[]
Also found as Queen of the Abruzzi
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The original text
Performed in the Adelhi Theatre, London on 8 June, 1846 and published by T.H. Lacy in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 21 June, with Is She a Woman? (Anon.) as afterpiece.
1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 22 September by the Le Roy and Duret Company with Don Juan (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82207987/
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press Archive[1]
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