Alcestis: The Original Strong-Minded Woman. A Classical Burlesque in One Act (1850)

Original id:

1242

Start date:

1 July 1850

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Burlesque

Production notes:

Macintosh (p.290) states that this burlesque was "revived later that year (possibly) in New York and then in London in 1853". It is not known whether the same people were involved in these revivals (IDs 8846 and 8847 respectively).

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Alkestis

Script	Author(s)
Alkestis	Euripides
Alcestis: The Original Strong-Minded Woman	Francis [Frank] Talfourd

Person	Role	Notes
Francis [Frank] Talfourd	Adaptor

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Strand Theatre (London, Greater London, England)			première

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Medea and British Legislation Before the First World War	Offprint	archive	12
Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones	Book	library	287
Alcestis on the British stage	Photocopy	archive	289-291
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	151
Alcestis! The Original Strong-Minded Woman - First Night Playbill	Poster	archive
Victorian Classical Burlesques : A Critical Anthology	Book	library	Script: pp.87-134

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