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Revision as of 04:46, 24 June 2017
Jean-Pierre-Diogenes, of L'Orateur dans un Tonneau ("Jean-Pierre-Diogenes, or The Speaker in a Barrel") a comic monologue by an anonymous author.
The text
Probably based on the life and/or works of Diogenes, apparently written in three languages (Dutch, English and French) possibly by a local author, the most likely being Charles Etienne Boniface.
Perfomances in South Africa
1815: Spoken as an amusing "Inleiding in drie Talen" ("Introduction in three Languages") to a performance of De Struikroovers van Kalabrien, of De Onveilige Wildernis (Tréogate) by Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense in Cape Town on Saturday 11 November.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: p. 140
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