Pamela - Revision history

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Performance history of Pamela in South Africa

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−	[[Pamela]] is the name of a character created by the novelist Samuel Richardson, about whom a number of literary and other works, including a number of plays, films and so on, have been written and produced. ''[[Pamela]]'' is often used as a shortened title for the works in question.	+	[[Pamela]] is the name of a character created by the novelist Samuel Richardson, immortalized in his novel of the same name, about whom a number of literary and other works, including a number of plays, films and so on, have been written and produced. ''[[Pamela]]'' is often used as a shortened title for the works in question.

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−	1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] translation as ''[[Pamela, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in the [[Amateur Theatre]] on 16 April ~~1825~~, with ''[[De Grijze Man, of De Rondborstige]]'' (Baudouin and Poujol).	+	1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] translation as ''[[Pamela, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in the [[Amateur Theatre]] on 16 April, with ''[[De Grijze Man, of De Rondborstige]]'' (Baudouin and Poujol).

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-[[Pamela]] is the name of a character about whom a number of literary works, including a number of plays, have been written and produced. ''[[Pamela]]'' is often used as a shortened title for the works in question.
+[[Pamela]] is the name of a character created by the novelist Samuel Richardson, about whom a number of literary and other works, including a number of plays, films and so on,  have been written and produced. ''[[Pamela]]'' is often used as a shortened title for the works in question.
 ==The original text==
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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-There have been many stage versions of the novel, beginning with a number of Italian and French texts.
+There have been many stage versions of the novel, beginning with a number of Italian and French texts, many of them adaptations or re-conceptions of the original, others sequels, etc.
 (On more on this, see for example: Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor. 2005. '''''Pamela''' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland'', Cambridge University Press)
-Below are some of the texts of importance in South African theatre.
+Below are some of the theatre texts of importance in South African theatre.
 It was adapted for the stage by Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni] as ''[[La Pamela]]'', interestingly enough a straight comedy rather than a commedia del'arte version.
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 The Goldoni text was first translated into English by John Nourse as ''[[Pamela, a Comedy]]'', performed and published in a bilingual version in 1756.
-''[[Paméla Mariée, ou Le Triomphe des Épouses]]'' ("Pamela married, of the triumph of virtue") is a three-act play French version by Benoît Pelletier-Volméranges (1756-1824) and Michel de Cubières de Palmézeaux, based on Goldoni's play. It was first performed in Paris, at the Théâtre de l'Ancien Opéra, in 1804 and published in Paris by Barba in the same year.
+''[[Paméla Mariée, ou Le Triomphe des Épouses]]'' ("Pamela married, of the triumph of virtue") is a three-act play French version by Benoît Pelletier-Volméranges (1756-1824) and Michel de Cubières (Michel de Cubières de Palmézeaux , 1752-1820)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Cubi%C3%A8res], based on Goldoni's play. It was first performed in Paris, at the Théâtre de l'Ancien Opéra, in 1804 and published in Paris by Barba in the same year.
 The French version by Pelletier-Volméranges and Cubières-Palmézaux was in its turn translated into [[Dutch]] by an anonymous author as ''[[Pamela, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld]]'', and published in Amsterdam by Abraham Mars in 1805. This apopears to have been the first version of a "Pamela"  play to be done in South Africa.

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 Below are some of the texts of importance in South African theatre.
-It was adapted for the stage by Carlo Goldoni as ''[[La Pamela]]'', interestingly enough a straight comedy rather than a commedia del'arte version.
+It was adapted for the stage by Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni] as ''[[La Pamela]]'', interestingly enough a straight comedy rather than a commedia del'arte version.
 The Goldoni text was first translated into English by John Nourse as ''[[Pamela, a Comedy]]'', performed and published in a bilingual version in 1756.

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		+	Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor. 2005. '''''Pamela''' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland'', Cambridge University Press[

	J.A. Worp. 1972 ''Geschiedenis van het Drama en van het Tooneel in Nederland'' (Deel 2: p. 449)[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0028.php]		J.A. Worp. 1972 ''Geschiedenis van het Drama en van het Tooneel in Nederland'' (Deel 2: p. 449)[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0028.php]

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-There have been many stage versions of the novel, beginning with a number of Italian and French texts. Below are some of the texts of importance in South African theatre.
+There have been many stage versions of the novel, beginning with a number of Italian and French texts. (See: Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor. 2005. '''''Pamela''' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland'', Cambridge University Press)
 It was adapted for the stage by Goldoni as ''[[La Pamela]]'', interestingly enough a serious play

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 http://global.britannica.com/topic/Pamela-A-Comedy
 J.A. Worp. 1972 ''Geschiedenis van het Drama en van het Tooneel in Nederland'' (Deel 2: p. 449)[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0028.php]
-[[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.
+[[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. 235.
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