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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Said to be a play about the two princes imprisoned in the Tower and executed by Richard III, the South African performance by pupils of a Catholic school in Cape Town may possibly have been nothing more than a performance of the tower scene from Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]''.
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Said to be a play about the two princes imprisoned in the Tower and executed by Richard III, the South African performance by pupils of a Catholic school in Cape Town. It may possibly have been a local adaptation made up of the relevant scenes from Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]''.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 09:08, 30 April 2020

The Royal Brothers is a play by an unknown author.

The original text

Said to be a play about the two princes imprisoned in the Tower and executed by Richard III, the South African performance by pupils of a Catholic school in Cape Town. It may possibly have been a local adaptation made up of the relevant scenes from Shakespeare's Richard III.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as The Royal Brothers by the pupils of St Mary's Convent School, Cape Town, on 13 July, with The Irish Lion (Buckstone)

Sources

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: pp.271

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