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("Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz") A French melodrama in three acts by  René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773 – 1844)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Charles_Guilbert_de_Pix%C3%A9r%C3%A9court].  


== Original text ==

Called a "mélodrame  historique en 3 actes et en prose", it was first performed at the the Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_l%27Ambigu-Comique] in Paris on 29 December 1803, to a record with a run of 430 nights. Published in Paris by Barba in 1804, and again in 1808 and 1815.

== Translations and adaptations ==


A major adaptation in English called ''[[Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz]]'' was done by Theodore Edward Hook[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hook] (1788-1841), with music by James Hook (Snr 1746-1827). First performed in English at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane in 1806 and published in London by C. and R. Baldwin, 1806 and in New York by D. Longworth, at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1807.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1824: Performed in English by the [[English Theatricals]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town  on 10 April with ''[[Love à-la-Mode]]'' (Macklin) as afterpiece.

1848: Performed in English in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Theatrical Company]] on 26 September , with the farce ''[[Fortune's Frolic, or The Ploughman Turned Lord]]'' (Allingham)

==Translations and adaptations==

== Sources ==

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Charles_Guilbert_de_Pix%C3%A9r%C3%A9court

Facsimile of the 1804 French text (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=QZFLAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]

Facsimile version of the 1815 publication of the French text (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=bpGWJHZcLmgC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=tekeli+ou+le+siege+de+montgatz&source=bl&ots=hugRQqnSRV&sig=N7zbiWoEpQ_AnK1SrMb70pOGVUc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7tteVYm9GYKU7AaHwICICg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=tekeli%20ou%20le%20siege%20de%20montgatz&f=false]

Allardyce Nicoll, 1930. A History of Early Nineteenth Centry Drama 1800-1850 : p. 82[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=D2s3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=tekeli+ou+le+siege+de+montgatz&source=bl&ots=RnVbRc-gkT&sig=Gz_Ia62gGxxvnov3C3enruEqAek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7tteVYm9GYKU7AaHwICICg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=tekeli%20ou%20le%20siege%20de%20montgatz&f=false]

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/22251640?op=t&n=35&s=2

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20660621?selectedversion=NBD8291418

[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 198, 397

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