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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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1862: A three-act dramatised version of the tale was apparently undertaken and "arranged" by members of the [[Dramatic Club]] of the [[North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot]] in Keiskama Hoek on August 30, September 11 and 19. The cast consisted of Captain [[G. E. Bulger]] (Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden), Captain [[C. Hudson]] (Prince George of Brandenburgh), [[C. H. Newbatt]] Esq. (Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburgh),  [[G. P. Townsend]] Esq. (Prince Bernard of Brandenburgh), [[J. S. Brougham]] Esq. (Prince Otho of Mecklenburgh), [[E. Saunder]] Esq. (Oxenstiern, Chancellor of Sweden), [[T. H. Smith]] Esq. (Theodore Zuski), Private [[G. Dawe]] (Eric, Page to Gustavus Adolphus), Lance-Corporal [[W. Allan]] (Demetrius, servant to Theodore Zuski), [[Miss Pauline Davies]] {Private [[J. Davies]]} (Princess Sophia of Mecklenburgh), [[Miss Frances Hastings]] {[[A. H. Handley]]} Esq. (Princess Maria Eleonora of Brandenburgh), [[Mademiselle Claudine Saint_Germain]] {Drummer [[J. Murray]]} (Countess Aurora). Also performed were Thomas J. Williams' one-act farce, ''[[The Ugly Customer]]'' and John Maddison Morton's one-act farce, ''[[Don't Judge by Appearances]]''. ''(For more on contemporary responses to the performances, see the entry on the [[North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot]])''
 
  
  

Revision as of 20:21, 9 August 2018

The Royal Quixote is a three-act drama "arranged by members of the Dramatic Club" of the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot.


The original text

The play was based on a short tale by Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)[1], apparently written in 1824 and first published in the Literary Garland of 1838. John Thurston, editor of Mrs Moodie's short stories, calls it a "long and rather tedious story about King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden".

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Moodie

Facsimile version of the first 3 chapters of the original story, as published in The Literary Garland Volume 1, No. 1 pp. 321-330[2]

John Thurston. 1991. "Introduction" to Voyages: Short Narratives of Susanna Moodie. University of Ottawa Press: p.xvii[3]

North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 14. December 10th 1862.

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