Mameena and other plays; the complete dramatic works of H. Rider Haggard.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Mameena and other plays; the complete dramatic works of H. Rider Haggard.

Haggard, H. Rider.

U. of KwaZulu-Natal Press

2007

411 pages

$79.95

Hardcover

PR4731

As he prepared such crowd pleasures as King Solomon's Mines, She and Allan Quartermain, Haggard occasionally turned his hand to the full-length plays Star of Egypt, To Hell or Connaught and Mameena. Only one of the was performed (Mameena, in 1914. They all sank into the mists of time. However, journalist Stephen Coan and Haggard expert Alfred Tella bring the plays once ...

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