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== Original play == | == Original play == | ||
| − | ''[[The Squaw Man]]'', | + | ''[[The Squaw Man]]'', tells the story of a White man who marries an Indian maiden and was first produced as ''[[The Squaw Man]]'' at Wallack's Theatre by Leibler and Company, New York in 1905, printed in 1906 by them. |
Performed with the title ''[[A White Man]]'' in England, ''inter alia'' at The Lyric Theatre, London in 1908. | Performed with the title ''[[A White Man]]'' in England, ''inter alia'' at The Lyric Theatre, London in 1908. | ||
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The Squaw Man is a comedy in four acts by Edwin Milton Royle ()[]
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Original play
The Squaw Man, tells the story of a White man who marries an Indian maiden and was first produced as The Squaw Man at Wallack's Theatre by Leibler and Company, New York in 1905, printed in 1906 by them.
Performed with the title A White Man in England, inter alia at The Lyric Theatre, London in 1908.
Translations and adaptations
The play was adapted into a novel called The Squaw Man by Edwin Milton Royle and Julie Opp Faversham, and published by Ardent Media, 1906. Apparently the novel too was published as A White Man in London by Hutchinson, 1908
Filmed as The Squaw Man in 1914 by Cecil B. De Mille, a movie which he subsequently remade in 1918 and again 1931. The films were likewise released as A White Man in England.
Performances in South Africa
19??*: Performed as A White Man by the Leonard Rayne Company in South Africa, with Leonard Rayne, Freda Godfrey, Cecil Kellaway, Margaretha van Hulsteyn and Clarence Bigge.
Sources
Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader[1] AbeBooks[2]
Richard Wattenberg. 2011. Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway. P. 246[3]
Margot Bryant, 1979: pp. 80-81 (photograph), 154
Go To the ESAT Bibliography
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First produced at Wallack's Theatre, New York by Leibler and Company in 1905. The play was called A White Man in England and the colonies.
See A White Man
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Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
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