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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1837: Performed in [[Dutch]] by the [[Stellenbossche Liefhebbery Tooneel - Stellenbosch Amateur Theatre]] (under the motto [[Door Yver Vruchtbaar]]) on 19 August, 1837 in Stellenbosch , as afterpiece to ''[[Dertig Jaren, of Het Leven van een Dobbelaar]]'' (Ducange and Dinaux).
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1837: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Uniformrok van den Veldmaarschalk Wellington]]'' by the [[Stellenbossche Liefhebbery Tooneel - Stellenbosch Amateur Theatre]] (under the motto [[Door Yver Vruchtbaar]]) on 19 August, 1837 in Stellenbosch , as afterpiece to ''[[Dertig Jaren, of Het Leven van een Dobbelaar]]'' (Ducange and Dinaux).
  
 
1852 Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] (with a shortened title as ''[[De Uniform Rok van Wellington]]'') on 10 June in the [[Hope Street Theatre|Hoopstraat Skouburg]], Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[Storb et Verner, ou Les Suites d'un Duel|Storb en Werner, of De Gevolgen van een Tweegevecht]]'' (Bonel and Boirie).
 
1852 Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] (with a shortened title as ''[[De Uniform Rok van Wellington]]'') on 10 June in the [[Hope Street Theatre|Hoopstraat Skouburg]], Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[Storb et Verner, ou Les Suites d'un Duel|Storb en Werner, of De Gevolgen van een Tweegevecht]]'' (Bonel and Boirie).

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Die Uniform des Feldmarschalls Wellington ("The Uniform of Field Marshal Wellington") is a comedy in one act by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)[1].

The original text

First performed and published in 1816, and collected in Dramatischen Werken von August von Kotzebue Vol 57 (Vienna, 1829).

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch by "P.L." as De Uniformrok van den Veldmaarschalk Wellington (literally: "The uniform dress of Marshall Wellington") and published in Amsterdam by H. van Kesteren in 1817

Performance history in South Africa

1837: Performed in Dutch as De Uniformrok van den Veldmaarschalk Wellington by the Stellenbossche Liefhebbery Tooneel - Stellenbosch Amateur Theatre (under the motto Door Yver Vruchtbaar) on 19 August, 1837 in Stellenbosch , as afterpiece to Dertig Jaren, of Het Leven van een Dobbelaar (Ducange and Dinaux).

1852 Performed in Dutch by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst (with a shortened title as De Uniform Rok van Wellington) on 10 June in the Hoopstraat Skouburg, Cape Town, as afterpiece to Storb en Werner, of De Gevolgen van een Tweegevecht (Bonel and Boirie).

Sources

Facsimile version of the German text (Google E-Book)[2]

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Die_Uniform_des_Feldmarschalls_Wellingto.html?id=lNVrNQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue

http://www.bibliotheek.nl/catalogus/titel.358100178.html

Facsimile version of the Dutch text (Google E-Book)[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 255, 456

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