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Stage Plays featuring Belphegor

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Among the plays seemingly based on the D'Ennery and Fournier text are:

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Performance history in South Africa

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Stage Plays featuring Belphegor

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Stage Plays featuring Belphegor

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 A large number of works have been written using this name in the title, or a character by this name.
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 The history of the character in theatre is a complicated one for there have been numerous plays over the years featuring this some version of the character, often using the name as (part of) the title. The problem is further compounded because  many authors performed and published such works under more than one variation of the title.

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 ''From here on the matter becomes mightily confusing,  for it appears that the D'Ennery and Fournier text to a large extent now became the source for a number of English adaptations or derivative works by various authors produced from 1851 onwards.''
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+==Among the plays seemingly based on the D'Ennery and Fournier text are:==
 ''[[Belphegor, or The Mountebank and His Wife]]'' a romantic and domestic drama in three acts by Thomas Higgie (1808?-1893) and

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 The history of the character in theatre is a complicated one for there have been numerous plays over the years featuring this some version of the character, often using the name as (part of) the title. The problem is further compounded because  many authors performed and published such works under more than one variation of the title.
-=='''Among those most often found are:'''==
+==Among those most often found are:==
 ''(Those texts that have been performed - or may '''possibly''' have been performed - in South Africa are provided with '''blue links''' to the relevant entries.  Click on the link for more information on the particular text.)''

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 The name [[Belphegor]] is the name of a mythical demon, and deriving from that a fictional character that occurs in, and lends his name as title to, a large number of stage plays, novels and works of art over the centuries.
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+=Belphegor the character=
 According to [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor] “Belphegor (or Beelphegor, Hebrew: בַּעַל-פְּעוֹר‎ baʿal-pəʿōr - Lord of the Gap) is a demon, and one of the seven princes of Hell, who helps people make discoveries. He seduces people by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them rich”.
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 A large number of works have been written using this name in the title, or a character by this name.
-==Stage Plays featuring Belphegor==
+=Stage Plays featuring Belphegor=
 The history of the character in theatre is a complicated one for there have been numerous plays over the years featuring this some version of the character, often using the name as (part of) the title. The problem is further compounded because  many authors performed and published such works under more than one variation of the title.
-==='''Among those most often found are:'''===
+=='''Among those most often found are:'''==
 ''(Those texts that have been performed - or may '''possibly''' have been performed - in South Africa are provided with '''blue links''' to the relevant entries.  Click on the link for more information on the particular text.)''
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 ''From here on the matter becomes mightily confusing,  for it appears that the D'Ennery and Fournier text to a large extent now became the source for a number of English adaptations or derivative works by various authors produced from 1851 onwards.''
-==='''Among the plays seemingly based on the D'Ennery and Fournier text are:'''===
+=='''Among the plays seemingly based on the D'Ennery and Fournier text are:'''==
 ''[[Belphegor, or The Mountebank and His Wife]]'' a romantic and domestic drama in three acts by Thomas Higgie (1808?-1893) and
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 ''[[Belphegor (play)|Belphegor]]'' by J. Wilton Jones, a musical comedy by Wilton Jones (libretto) and Alfred Christensen (music), opened in South Shields T.R. on October 20. 1889.
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 ''Below is a listing of '''all the plays found''' using ''[[Belphegor]]'' '''as''' title, or using the name '''in''' the title.''
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 : Performed as ''[[Belphegor]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company on 19 November. [[F.C.L. Bosman]], (1890:p. 363), suggests this was Webster's version, though it is far more likely to have been the same Courtney text used by the Cape Town company in 1875-1876.
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor
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 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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 Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]

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 == Performance history in South Africa==
-''Below is a listing of '''all the plays found''' using ''[[Belphegor]]'' AS title, or using the name IN the title.''
+''Below is a listing of '''all the plays found''' using ''[[Belphegor]]'' '''as''' title, or using the name '''in''' the title.''
 : A piece called ''[[Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor]]'' is a pantomime performed in Cape Town 12 August, featuring [[Monsieur Delémery]], who most probably also devised the performance himself.

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 In 1850 Adolphe d' Ennery (1811-1899)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_d%27Ennery]  and Marc Fournier (1818-1879) wrote the very popular and influential French play '''''[[Paillasse]]''''' (called ''[[La Paillasse]]'' in some sources, i.e. "Clown" or "The Clown") featuring a clown named "Belphégor".
-'''''From here on the matter becomes mightily confusing,  for it appears that the D'Ennery and Fournier text to a large extent now became the source for a number of English adaptations or derivative works by various authors produced from 1851 onwards.'''''
+''From here on the matter becomes mightily confusing,  for it appears that the D'Ennery and Fournier text to a large extent now became the source for a number of English adaptations or derivative works by various authors produced from 1851 onwards.''
 ==='''Among the plays that seem to have been based on the D'Ennery and Fournier text are:'''===