Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly is an influential and famous anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe ()[].

Usually referred to simply as Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The novel

Originally published as a 40-week serial in The National Era, beginning on June 5, 1851, the story was published in book form by John P. Jewett on March 20, 1852. The novel became the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, second only to the Bible and had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have substantially contributed to the start of the Civil War.

Translations and adaptations

Adaptations for the stage

The work was often adapted, including versions by George Aikin, Edward Fitzball, Colin Hazlewood, Charles Hermann, Mark Lemon and Tom Taylor, and Charles Morton. Below more details on versions performed in South Africa.

Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Drama of Real Life by Charles Hermann

Adapted as Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Drama of Real Life by Charles Hermann and published in Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, vol 12 in the 1850s. The Charles Hermann was later produced at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, on 15 August, 1892.

Adaptations for film and TV

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin

H. Philip Bolton. 2000. Women Writers Dramatized: A Calendar of Performances from Narrative Works Published in English to 1900. London: A&C Black: p.320, 375.

Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs. 1997. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film'. Oxford: Oxford University Press: p. 219.

The original text

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

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 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.203-205

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