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''[[Le Rendez-vous, ou l'Amour Supposé]]'' (lit "The assignation, or the imagined love") is a one act French comedy in verse by Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan, (also known as "Fagan de Lugny", 1702-1755)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy-Christophe_Fagan].

Also known simply as '''''[[Le Rendez-vous]]'''''

== The original text ==

First performed as ''[[Le Rendez-vous, ou l'Amour Supposé]]'' in Paris at the Théâtre-Français on 27 May 1733. 

Published in Paris by Chaubert in 1733, in Volume 6 of ''Le Nouveau théâtre françois'' by E. Neaulme, 1735[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Le_rendez_vous_ou_L_amour_suppos%C3%A9_com%C3%A9.html?id=tk2BnQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y] and in the collected works of Fagan in 1760.


==Translations and adaptations==

Freely adapted into German by August von Kotzebue as ''[[Der Mann von Vierzig Jahren]]'' (lit "the man of forty years", or "The forty year old man"), it was first performed in the Königlichen Schaulspielhaus ,  Berlin in 1794 and published in Leipzig  by Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1795. 

The Kotzebue version was in turn translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Man van Veertig Jaren]]'' by an unknown author.

Translated into English as ''[[The Rendezvous]]'' (or ''[[Rendezvous, or Love in All Corners]]'') by Richard Ayton. First Performed at the Theatre Royal, English Opera, in September, 1818, and became extremely popular for most of the 109th and early 20th centuries.  Published by [[S. French]], 1818, I. Riley in 1818?, by John Cumberland

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1849: The [[Dutch]] version performed in  Cape Town  by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] on 19 June as an afterpiece to ''[[Charlotte Blandford, of De Wedergevonden Vader]]'' (Anon/Engelman)

1861: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[Rendezvous, or Love in All Corners]]'' by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company on 22 August, with ''[[The Lady of Lyons]]'' (Lytton).

1878: A piece called ''[[Love in All Corners]]'' was produced by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 23 march, as afterpiece to ''[[The Octoroon]]'' (Boucicault). F.C.L. Bosman (1980, p.366) seems to call it a "new ballet", but it is far more likely that this was just a typographical error, and that this was the the ballet was an additional

== Sources ==

Facsimile version of the 1733 published French text, [[Gallica]][https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56750354.pdf]

E. Neaulme. 1735. ''Le Nouveau théâtre françois'' (Volume 6) [https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Le_rendez_vous_ou_L_amour_suppos%C3%A9_com%C3%A9.html?id=tk2BnQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y] 

Fagan. 1760. ''Théâtre de m. Fagan, et autres oeuvres du mesme auteur.'' (''Le rendez-vous. La grondeuse. La pupille. L'amitié rivale. Jaconde. Le musulman''), N. B. Duchesne

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy-Christophe_Fagan

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Le_rendez_vous_ou_L_amour_suppos%C3%A9_com%C3%A9.html?id=tk2BnQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Catalogue of the works of August von Kotzebue: Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ), Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB)[http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/index.html?c=autoren_werke&ab=Kotzebue,%20August%20von&l=de]

Gesa Dane. 1994. ''Die heilsame Toilette: Kosmetik und Bildung in Goethes 'Der Mann von fünfzig Jahren'''[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NVEc3sUAgBMC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Der+Mann+von+vierzig+jahren+Kotzebue&source=bl&ots=4PK2uWuTeb&sig=kK-kvzCN1d3ZGpnZFFeZKOnj2jc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=etAUVaWEDsH9Uv7Sg8gH&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Der%20Mann%20von%20vierzig%20jahren%20Kotzebue&f=false]

Facsimile version of the 1795 German play, HathiTrust Digital Collection[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011819482]

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 455, 

[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205


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