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''[[Julius von Sassen]]'' is a melodramatic German tragedy in four acts by Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771–1848)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Zschokke]. 

== The original play ==

A version attributed to Zschokke, but adapted by Gottlieb Wetzinger, was published in Graz in 1797. 

A text attributed only to  Zschokke was published  in Zürich by Orell, Füssli and Company in 1798.

==Translations and adaptations==

Translated by an anonymous translator into [[Dutch]] as '''''[[Julius van Sassen]]''''' and published in Amsterdam by H. van Kesteren, 1805.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1829: First performed in [[Dutch]] translation in [[De Liefhebbery Toneel]], Cape Town by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 22 August,  along with ''[[De Sint Nicolaas Avond, of Het Bezoek door den Schoorsteen]]'' (Kup).

1833: Performed in [[Dutch]] by the company [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in [[De Liefhebbery Toneel]], Cape Town on 12 October, with ''[[Jocrisse in Eenen Nieuwen Dienst]]'' (Dorvigny)

1878: Performed in the [[Oddfellows Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Rederijkerskamer]]  [[De Eendracht]] on 4 September, with  ''[[Klaartje Scherpnagel, of De Twee Vrijers]]'' (Anon.) as an afterpiece.

== Sources ==

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Zschokke

Facsimile version of the 1798 German text, Hathi Trust[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000108762448;view=1up;seq=7]

Facsimile Text of the 1805 [[Dutch]] version of the play,  Google E-Book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=JCBlAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=af&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]

Facsimile Text of the third edition (1822) of the [[Dutch]] version of the play, Google E-Book[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=IkhUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=Julius+van+Sassen&source=bl&ots=95IFbYXSDs&sig=-UNq3wbe0AcHMQmIw2Y04tKo8fI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dL99VO-SEMKa7gawkoHoAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Julius%20van%20Sassen&f=false]

[[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. 242, 246

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 449.

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