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"John Beer Johnstone" in: Léger-St-Jean, Marie. ''Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860''. [19 March 2017]. Faculty of English, Cambridge [08 April 2018] (http://priceonepenny.info).[http://www.priceonepenny.info/database/show_author.php?author_id=290] | "John Beer Johnstone" in: Léger-St-Jean, Marie. ''Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860''. [19 March 2017]. Faculty of English, Cambridge [08 April 2018] (http://priceonepenny.info).[http://www.priceonepenny.info/database/show_author.php?author_id=290] | ||
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[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | [[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | ||
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The Sailor of France, or The Republicans of Brest is a drama in two acts by John Beer Johnstone (1803-1891)[]
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Surrey Theatre, 28 November, 1853. Published by T.H. Lacy.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1876: Performed as The Sailor of France, or The Republicans of Brest in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company on 5 August, with Notre Dame, or The Gipsy Girl of Paris (Hugo/Halliday).
1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town by Captain Disney Roebuck's company on 24 November, with Lady Audley's Secret (Hazlewood) and a ballad sung by Miss Wynne.
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[1]
"John Beer Johnstone" in: Léger-St-Jean, Marie. Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860. [19 March 2017]. Faculty of English, Cambridge [08 April 2018] (http://priceonepenny.info).[2]
http://karenphotographs.com/afamilyalbum/johnelizasouthbeer.htm
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.341, 363
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