Elize van Wallenthorst

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An original Dutch play in three acts by an anonymous author.

The original text

A melodramatic play about the triumph of virtue. A young girl who runs away with an unsuitable man and is chased by her father and a noble suitor, who saves the father's life and wins the girl. Published in 1794.

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Performance history in South Africa

1835: Produced in Dutch by the Het Tooneellievend en Vereenigd Muzyk Gezelschap (with the motto Door Yver Vruchtbaar) in Stellenbosch on 7 March, with De Brandschatting (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece. The performance was a charity event for the wounded of the so-called "Kaffir War" on the eastern Cape border.

Sources

J.A. Worp, Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Deel 2. Wolters, Groningen 1907. pp176-7[1]

G. Kalff, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde. Deel 6. J.B. Wolters, Groningen 1910 P. 472[2]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 255

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