Een Hedendaagsch Duel

Een Hedendaagsch Duel ("a contemporary duel") is a dramatic sketch by "Giuseppe"

The original text
The only reference to be found is the one in Bosman (1980). It may perhaps have been a Dutch version of Il Duello al Buio ("The duel in the dark") a melodrama in two acts with a Italian libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini (1777–1840), which was published by Tipografia Flautina in 1835

Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed in Dutch as Een Hedendaagsch Duel (Guiseppe)  by Aurora II in Paarl, as an afterpiece to Gustaaf Wasa (Von Kotzebue) on 7 November.

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