Majiet - Revision history

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 == The original text ==
-Published, and possibly performed, by Johannesburg: Open School on the Move, 1986. A copy of the play text held by [[NELM]].
+Published, and possibly performed, by Johannesburg: [[Open School on the Move]], 1986. A copy of the play text held by [[NELM]].
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 = [[Majiet]], the author of an 18th century play =
-According to [[Stephen Gray|Gray]], [[Majiet]] was the name of a Malay slave at the Cape, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740.
+According to [[Stephen Gray]], [[Majiet]] was the name of a Malay slave at the Cape, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740.
 The work appears to have been written in transliterated early "kitchen [[Dutch]]"/[[Afrikaans]], and tells the story of a slave girl who, having resisted the advances of her master, is assaulted by her son.
-According to [[Stephen Gray]] (1978b) the text of the play is extant, but is held in a private collection. Performances of this, and other similar plays of protest, are assumed to have been performed in secret in the slave lodge at the top of Adderley Street (now the Cultural History Museum.
+[[Stephen Gray]] (1978b) mentions that the text of the play is extant, but is held in a private collection. Performances of this, and other similar plays of protest, are assumed to have been performed in secret in the slave lodge at the top of Adderley Street (now the Cultural History Museum.
 The story (text?) of Majiet's text or that of Dangor seems to have formed the basis of a 1998 Musical performed at the [[Baxter Theatre]], Cape Town. [''Information on the musical yet to be found'']

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 = [[Majiet]], the author of an 18th century play =
-According to [[Stephen Gray]] (1978b), [[Majiet]] was the name of a Malay slave at the Cape, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740.
+According to [[Stephen Gray|Gray]], [[Majiet]] was the name of a Malay slave at the Cape, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740.
 The work appears to have been written in transliterated early "kitchen [[Dutch]]"/[[Afrikaans]], and tells the story of a slave girl who, having resisted the advances of her master, is assaulted by her son.

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 = [[Majiet]], the author of an 18th century play =
-A Malay slave, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, (though [[Jill Fletcher]] refers to [[Majiet]] as a [[Malay]] girl), who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740. It appears to have been in transliterated "kitchen [[Dutch]]"/[[Afrikaans]], and tells the story of a slave girl who, having resisted the advances of her master, is assaulted by her son.
+According to [[Stephen Gray]] (1978b), [[Majiet]] was the name of a Malay slave at the Cape, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740.
 According to [[Stephen Gray]] (1978b) the text of the play is extant, but is held in a private collection. Performances of this, and other similar plays of protest, are assumed to have been performed in secret in the slave lodge at the top of Adderley Street (now the Cultural History Museum.
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 == Sources ==
-[[Jill Fletcher|Fletcher, Jill]] 1994.  ''The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Cape Town: Vlaeberg. (This is the official title, but the dust jacket of the original edition bears a different title: ''The Story of South African Theatre: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Both titles are cited by sources.)
+[[Jill Fletcher]] 1994.  ''The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Cape Town: Vlaeberg, p. 15.
 [[Stephen Gray]] 1978b. "Our forgotten drama: Stephen Gray looks at the continuity of South African English drama". ''[[Speak]], 1(2):13-16; 46-47.

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-[[Majiet]]  could refer to a '''historic playwright''' or to a '''play'''.
+[[Majiet]] could refer to an 18th century South African '''playwright''' or to a '''play'''.
 =''[[Majiet]]'' is a play by [[Achmat Dangor]] (1948-2020)=
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 https://sahistory.org.za/archive/majiet-play-achmat-dangor-0
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 A Malay slave, said to be the son of the revered Sheik Jousuf, (though [[Jill Fletcher]] refers to [[Majiet]] as a [[Malay]] girl), who wrote an unnamed play in Arabic script in 1740. It appears to have been in transliterated "kitchen [[Dutch]]"/[[Afrikaans]], and tells the story of a slave girl who, having resisted the advances of her master, is assaulted by her son.
-According to [[Stephen Gray]] the text of the play is extant, but held in a private collection. Performances of this, and other similar plays of protest, are assumed to have been performed in secret in the slave lodge at the top of Adderley Street (now the Cultural History Museum.
+According to [[Stephen Gray]] (1978b) the text of the play is extant, but is held in a private collection. Performances of this, and other similar plays of protest, are assumed to have been performed in secret in the slave lodge at the top of Adderley Street (now the Cultural History Museum.
-The story (text?) of Majiet's text seems to have formed the basis of a 1998 Musical called performed at the [[Baxter Theatre]], Cape Town.
+The story (text?) of Majiet's text or that of Dangor seems to have formed the basis of a 1998 Musical performed at the [[Baxter Theatre]], Cape Town. [Information on the musical yet to be found]
 == Sources ==

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 [[Jill Fletcher|Fletcher, Jill]] 1994.  ''The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Cape Town: Vlaeberg. (This is the official title, but the dust jacket of the original edition bears a different title: ''The Story of South African Theatre: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Both titles are cited by sources.)
-[[Stephen Gray]] 1978b. Our forgotten drama: Stephen Gray looks at the continuity of South African English drama. ''[[Speak]]: critical arts journal'', 1(2):13-16; 46-47.
+[[Stephen Gray]] 1978b. "Our forgotten drama: Stephen Gray looks at the continuity of South African English drama". ''[[Speak]], 1(2):13-16; 46-47.
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