Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor
Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor is a pantomime performed in Cape Town 12 August 1805, featuring Monsieur Delemery, who most probably also devised the performance himself.
Performed with Eraste, ou L'Enfant Proscrit de Son Père and Le Paysan, Soldat Malgré Lui.
See Kennedy, 1996[1] on the series of pantomimes that have been created on the Arlequin Protégé theme.
Sources
Emmet Kennedy. 1996. Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris: Analysis and Repertory (Greenwood Publishing Group)[2]: p. 258.
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. pp. 90-91,
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