The Young Widow, or A Lesson for Lovers

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The Young Widow, or A Lesson for Lovers is a comic piece in one act by Thomas G. Rodwell ()[]

More often found simply as The Young Widow.

The original text

First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1843 and the Park Theatre, New York, in 1855.

Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy (as Volume 22 of Lacy's acting edition), in New York by Samuel French (1850) and in Boston by William V. Spencer (Spencer's Boston Theatre no CLIX).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1868: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 4 May, with The Dowager (Mathews).

Sources

Facsimile version of the Samuel French edition of 1850, The Internet Archive[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.233

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