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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
 
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There seems to be no references to a ply by this name, but a likely candidate would be ''[[Jessy Vere, or The Return of the Wanderer]]'' (Hazlewood, 1856).  
“The Wanderer’s Return,” by M. W. D. (in ''Youth’s Companion'', 22 November 1849; p. 117)
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
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1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s  first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
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1884-5: Boonzaier (1923)  refers to a play called ''[[The Wanderer’s Return]]'' that was performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s  first season as lessee and manager of the venue. It is probably an innacurate reference to (or adaptation of)  Hazlewood's play.  
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 09:22, 9 August 2019

The Wanderer's Return is a play by an anonymous author.

The original text

There seems to be no references to a ply by this name, but a likely candidate would be Jessy Vere, or The Return of the Wanderer (Hazlewood, 1856).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1884-5: Boonzaier (1923) refers to a play called The Wanderer’s Return that was performed by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue. It is probably an innacurate reference to (or adaptation of) Hazlewood's play.

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 1923. (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.325

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