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''[[Jeppe på Bjerget]]'' (or ''[[Jeppe på bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde]]'', i.e. "Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant") is a Danish comedy in five acts by Ludvic Holberg (1684-1784)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg]
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''[[Jeppe på Bjerget]]'' (also ''[[Jeppe på bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde]]'' or ''[[Jeppe paa Bierget eller den forvandlede Bonde]]'', 1722, i.e. "Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant") is a Danish comedy in five acts by Ludvic Holberg (1684-1784)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg]
  
  

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Jeppe på Bjerget (also Jeppe på bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde or Jeppe paa Bierget eller den forvandlede Bonde, 1722, i.e. "Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant") is a Danish comedy in five acts by Ludvic Holberg (1684-1784)[1]


The original text

First published in Danish in 1722

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant.

Translated into Dutch as De Herschapen Boer ("The transformed farmer") by Dan. Wil. Triller and published in Vyf Aardige aardige en vermakelyke blijspelen by Lodewyk Holberg (Steven van Estveldt, 1767).

Performance history in South Africa

1869: Performed in Dutch as Barthel, of De Herschapen Boer in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 1 July, with Roland de Monglave, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld (Tréogate). The evening under the patronage of President Brand of the Republic of the Orange Free State.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppe_on_the_Hill

Facsimile version of the 1767 Dutch text, Google E-book[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 445

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