Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Selfish Princess (Play)


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW  MBisanz  talk 00:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The Selfish Princess (Play)

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No evidence provided or found that this play ever existed. While a play from 1865, ostensibly dedicated to Queen Victoria, that muses on the perils of selfishness might be plausible, coinciding as it does with Victoria's withdrawal from public life and the resultant public reaction, the rest of the article seems to be beyond plausibility. The cast list for the play includes Ellen Terry in the lead role with Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Sullivan, Jenny Lind (in an apparently non-singing role) and a minor royal. If this play existed, it would, of course, have generated the required notabilty by casting alone. I could find nothing even remotely resembling this play, although I did notice that the timing of the play coincides with a period when Ellen Terry wasn't actually on the stage, after the failure of her first marriage. FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 09:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - pretty transparent hoax, most of the alleged cast were not even actors -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:31, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - laughable hoax. "Alfred Tennyson as fruit seller" - yeah, right. "Princess Augusta of Cambridge as Queen Adelaida" - imagination boggles; by this date she was HRH The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The link is to a single page on a free hosting site, where one Marisa Owens says she "dreams to become a historian someday." The first thing she will have to learn is the difference between fact and fiction. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete obvious hoax. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  13:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax --  Chzz  ►  13:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Obvious hoax. Autarch (talk) 16:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


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