The Libertine
The Libertine is a tragedy written by Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692)[1]
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The original text
Based on the Don Juan legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Shadwell's play is best known in South African through Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed a "grand pantomimical ballet" version of the play by Carlo Antonio Delpini (??-1828)[2], which was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck".
Performance history in South Africa
1814: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town as a "grand ballet" (attributed to Thomas Shadwell) on 16 April by Mr Cuerton's company, in association with the Garrison Players, followed by a pantomime called Three Witches, or Harlequin Reanimated.
1814: Repeated by Mr Cuerton's company on 13 August with a Pantomime Farce featuring Mr Arnot as "Harlequin" and Mr Cuerton as "Clown".
1860: A performance of a pantomime of Don Juan formed part of the repertoire of the M'Collum's Circus, which played to acclaim in Cape Town for five months. Bosman (1980: p.140) suggests this may be a version based on Shadwell's play The Libertine.)
Sources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490
http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597
David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown[3]
Facsimile version of Shadwell's The Libertine (1676). Digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive[4]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp. 145
Sources
Sources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490
http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597
David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown[6]
Facsimile version of Shadwell's The Libertine (1676). Digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive[7]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [8]: pp. 145
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.140
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