There had already been two stage versions in the USA, and it is estimated that by the end of the century there were twenty different versions in Britain alone. The famous line from the...
Performance of text
Harriett Jay
Under the sole writing credit of HJ
(as Charles Marlowe), her best-known play, When Knights Were Bold, opened at the Theatre Royal
in Nottingham.
Regan, Patrick. “When Knights Were Bold”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).