L'homme à Trois Visages, ou Le Proscrit
L'homme à Trois Visages, ou Le Proscrit ("The man in three guises, or the exile") is three act play by Pixérécourt ()[1].
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The original text
De Pixérécourt's play is a French adaptation of Abällino, der Grosse Bandit ("Abällino the Great Bandit"), a 5-act German tragedy by Heinrich Zschokke (1771 - 1848)[2], based on his novel of the same name.
Translations and adaptations
The French text was translated into Dutch as De Man in Drie Gedaanten, of De Balling ("The man with three faces, or the exile"),
NOTE: There is also a satirical work entitled De Man in Vier Gedaanten, of Musicus, Acteur, Gaskonjer en Taalmeester ("The man in three guises, or musician, actor, Gascon and language teacher") by Joseph Suasso de Lima, listed in an advert in the South African Chronicle of 15 June 1825 as one of a series to be published by subscription. Entirely unrelated to this work, though the title was obviously chosen in imitation of this play's title.
Performance history in South Africa
1831: Performed in Dutch as De Man in Drie Gedaanten, of De Balling by Tot Nut en Vermaak in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 21 August, with Het Glas Water (Von Guttenberg) as afterpiece.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Zschokke
https://archive.org/details/abllinodergrosse01zsch
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Aballino_de_groote_bandiet.html?id=6GI6uAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Facsimile version of the 1796 Dutch text of Aballino, Google eBook[3]
Facsimile version of the 1801 Dutch text of De Man in Drie Gedaanten, Google eBook[4]]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Charles_Guilbert_de_Pix%C3%A9r%C3%A9court
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp.135, 243, 271-2, 334,
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 448.
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