User:RL0919/Vice Versa

Vice Versa is a play by Edward Rose, that adapted the 1882 novel of the same name by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. The play debuted at the Gaiety Theatre, London on 9 April 1883. The story is a fantasy about a body swap between a father and son. Rose played the son in the debut production; Charles Hawtrey played the father.

Father Bultitude; son Dick. Laura Linden played Dulcie.

Adapted from Vice Versa (novel) by Thomas Anstey Guthrie:


 * Authorized adaptation per The Freemason's Chronicle: https://books.google.com/books?id=J3EtAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA195
 * The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Dt_XCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1436&lpg=PT1436
 * Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder https://books.google.com/books?id=crpMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180

Possible sources:


 * Theatricalia: https://theatricalia.com/play/9ab/vice-versa-a-lesson-to-fathers/production/k2d
 * Dramatic Notes April 1883 p 16 https://books.google.com/books?id=_coUAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16
 * The Athenaeum 14 April 1883 p 486 https://books.google.com/books?id=oMg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA486
 * The Oxford Magazine 2 June 1886 p 220 https://books.google.com/books?id=uFPnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA220
 * The Academy 30 June 1883 p 464 https://books.google.com/books?id=oEZRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA464
 * The Theatre 1 November 1885 p 281 https://books.google.com/books?id=uKWj8qUci7YC&pg=RA1-PA281
 * The Theatre 1 May 1883 p 303 https://books.google.com/books?id=7TinbyplU0YC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303
 * Punch 21 April 1883 p 181 https://books.google.com/books?id=x-ZbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA181
 * The Nation https://books.google.com/books?id=DRw4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA425
 * Our Corner, Edward B. Aveling, December 1883, pp. 363-364 https://books.google.com/books?id=xG4YAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA364