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''[[Whitebait at Greenwich]]'' is a play in one act by Morton ()[]
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''[[Whitebait at Greenwich]]'' is farce in one act by John Maddison Morton ()[]
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In America it was apparently performed and published under the title ''[[The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich]]''.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Published in London as Lacy's Acting Edition  no. 175 by Samuel French and in New York by Samuel French & Son in 1860.
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Later also published in America as ''[[The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich]]'' in Spencer's Boston Theatre 1856), in Sergel's Acting Drama in 1888 and again in Boston by W.H. Baker & Co., c1889. 
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==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:04, 2 April 2018

Whitebait at Greenwich is farce in one act by John Maddison Morton ()[]

In America it was apparently performed and published under the title The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich.

The original text

Published in London as Lacy's Acting Edition no. 175 by Samuel French and in New York by Samuel French & Son in 1860.

Later also published in America as The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich in Spencer's Boston Theatre 1856), in Sergel's Acting Drama in 1888 and again in Boston by W.H. Baker & Co., c1889.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 November, with The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care (Pitt).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 362,


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