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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
[[John Oxenford]]'s 1835 one-act farce ''A Day Well Spent'' had been extended into a full-length play entitled ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'' by Austrian playwright [[Johann Nestroy]] in 1842. Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled ''The Merchant of Yonkers'', which revolves around Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy Yonkers, New York businessman in the market for a wife. (''Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Yonkers])
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[[John Oxenford]]'s 1835 one-act farce ''[[A Day Well Spent]]'' had been extended into a full-length play entitled ''[[Einen Jux will er sich machen]]'' by Austrian playwright [[Johann Nestroy]] in 1842.  
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Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled ''[[The Merchant of Yonkers]]'', which revolves around Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy Yonkers, New York businessman in the market for a wife. (''Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Yonkers])
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 11:21, 9 December 2022

A farce by Thornton Wilder, premiered on Broadway in 1938.

The original text

John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842.

Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled The Merchant of Yonkers, which revolves around Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy Yonkers, New York businessman in the market for a wife. (Wikipedia [1])

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