Le Verre d’Eau. Les Effets et Les Causes

Le Verre d’Eau. Les Effets et Les Causes ("The glass of water. The effects and the causes") is a historical comedy in five acts by Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791-1861).

The original French text
Set in the court of St James, London, during the last period of the Spanish War of Succession. Written for and performed by the Théâtre Français in 1840.

Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Het Glas Water, of Die Uitwerkingen en De Beweegredenen, by Carel Alexander van Ray, Published in Amsterdam: Van Kesteren,  1841.

(Not to be confused with Het Glas Water, a Dutch translation of Das Glas Wasser, a German comedy in two acts by Andreas Joseph von Guttenberg (1770 - 1817).)

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