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''[[Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua]]'' ("Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa") is a German tragedy in two acts by Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller]

Also known simply as '''''[[Fiesco ]]'''''.

==The original text==

Described as "Ein republikanishes Trauerspel" ("a republican tragedy"), the play is based on the historical conspiracy of Giovanni Luigi Fieschi[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Luigi_Fieschi] against Andrea Doria in Genoa in 1547. It premiered in at the Hoftheaterin Bonn in 1783 and published  in Frankfurt and Leipzig by**, 1783. 

==Translations and adaptations==

Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[Fiësko, of De Samenzweering te Genua]]'' (a "Republikeinsch treurspel") by a number of authors. A version by an unnamed translator was published by P. Meyer en G. Warnars, 1792 (as Volume 22 of Spectatoriaale schouwburg), one by  C.M. Plumicke and Iz. de Jongh published by Abraham Mars, Amsterdam, in 1800  and yet another version by Jacob Lennep, published in 1825  by M. Westerman en C. van Hulst.

''[[Fiesco]]'' was first translated into English by G. H. Noehden and J. Stoddart, during Schiller’s lifetime, and was followed by a few more in the 19th century. However, according to John Guthrie (2015)[https://books.openedition.org/obp/2318?lang=en], Schiller’s ''[[Fiesco]]'' was not often performed in Britain, beyond a performance at Drury Lane Theatre in 1850 (adapted by Planché). The latest version is ''[[Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa]]'' by Flora Kimmich, 2015. 

The German silent film ''Die Verschwörung zu Genua''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conspiracy_in_Genoa] (1921, directed by Paul Leni) is based on the Schiller play.

''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611032/] (A TV version, directed by Theodor Grädler, 1961)

''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611033/] (A TV version, directed by Heinrich Koch, 1964)

''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua''[] (a DDR radio drama, 1969, directed by Peter Groeger).

''Fiesco''[https://www.stretta-music.com/holst-solbach-fiesco-die-verschwoerung-des-fiesco-zu-genua-nr-670212.html], an opera in three acts by Friedemann Holst-Solbach, 2015)

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1896: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[Fiësko, of De Samenzweering te Genua]]'' (probably in the Lennep version) by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, on 27 August.

==Sources==

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Verschw%C3%B6rung_des_Fiesco_zu_Genua

Facsimile version of the 1792 [[Dutch]] version, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=FVRUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=Fiesko,+of+de+samenzweering+te+Genua&source=bl&ots=vDcr1nwuqR&sig=ACfU3U1yoOkzgahXG0UlS8hCoqH44pDyVw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR25T_zrHmAhXeQkEAHTQZBhEQ6AEwA3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Fiesko%2C%20of%20de%20samenzweering%20te%20Genua&f=false]

Facsimile version of the 1800 [[Dutch]] version, [[Delpher]][https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?coll=boeken&identifier=dpo:9278:mpeg21:0025]

Facsimile version of the 1825 [[Dutch]] version, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=FVRUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=Fiesko,+of+de+samenzweering+te+Genua&source=bl&ots=vDcr1nwuqR&sig=ACfU3U1yoOkzgahXG0UlS8hCoqH44pDyVw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR25T_zrHmAhXeQkEAHTQZBhEQ6AEwA3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Fiesko%2C%20of%20de%20samenzweering%20te%20Genua&f=false]

John Guthrie. 2015. Introduction to ''[[Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa]]'' by Flora Kimmich. Cambridge:  Open Book Publishers[https://books.openedition.org/obp/2318?lang=en]

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

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611032/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611033/

https://www.stretta-music.com/holst-solbach-fiesco-die-verschwoerung-des-fiesco-zu-genua-nr-670212.html

[[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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