Les Prisonniers de Guerre
Les Prisonniers de Guerre is a one-act play by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)[1]
Contents
The original text
Probably written in 1743 and first published in Genève, 1782.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1803: Performed on 23 March in the African Theatre, Cape Town by a company of "French lovers of the theatre", later referred to as the French Amateurs, with Arlequin Afficheur (Desfontaines, Barré and Radet)
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Prisonniers de Guerre, Comedie , in Collection complète des oeuvres, Genève, 1780-1789, vol. 14, in-4°, édition en ligne www.rousseauonline.ch, version du 7 octobre 2012.[2]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp.
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