Notes, references and sources
Notes
- ↑ There were two try-out performances by the Stage Society in 1903. [4]
- ↑ Adaptation of Les Gaîtés du veuvage (1904) by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt. [10]
- ↑ Though it was staged as Grace, Maugham originally gave the play the title Landed Gentry, under which it was published. [13]
- ↑ Adaptation of Le bourgeois gentilhomme , written to precede Thomas Beecham's presentation of Ariadne auf Naxos . [16]
- ↑ The play was staged as Caroline, but Maugham originally gave the play the title The Unattainable, under which it was published. [18]
- ↑ First seen on Broadway in 1919 under the title Too Many Husbands. [23]
- ↑ Dramatised by Maugham from his short story of the same name, published in The Casuarina Tree (1926). [29]
- ↑ Adaptation of La maschera e il volto (1917) by Luigi Chiarelli. [33]
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Sources
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- Mander, Raymond; Joe Mitchenson (1955). Theatrical Companion to Maugham. London: Rockliffe. OCLC 1336174067.