Quo Vadis - Revision history

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The phrase "Quo Vadis?"

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-The Latin phrase ''[[Quo Vadis]]?''  has been the title of a famous novel and number of dramatized versions of the tale.
+The Latin phrase ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' ("Where are you going?") has been the title of a famous novel and number of dramatized versions of the tale.
 =The phrase "Quo Vadis?"=
-Written without a question mark in Latin, the "quo" implying a question, and with one in English ([[Quo Vadis?]]), this is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" and is part of Christian lore (based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Peter'', in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time", which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. ).
+This Latin phrase is part of Christian lore (based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Peter'', in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time", which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. ).
 =The original novel=

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 =The phrase "Quo Vadis?"=
-Written without a question mark in Latin, the "quo" implying a question, and [[Quo Vadis?]] in English) is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" and is part of Christian lore (based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Peter'', in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time", which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. ).
+Written without a question mark in Latin, the "quo" implying a question, and with one in English ([[Quo Vadis?]]), this is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" and is part of Christian lore (based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Peter'', in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time", which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. ).
 =The original novel=

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 =The phrase "Quo Vadis?"=
-''[[Quo Vadis?]]'' (or often simply [[Quo Vadis]]) is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" and is part of Christian lore (based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Peter'', in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time", which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. ).
+Written without a question mark in Latin, the "quo" implying a question, and [[Quo Vadis?]] in English) is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" and is part of Christian lore (based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Peter'', in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time", which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. ).
 =The original novel=

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 [[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
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.408
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 =The original novel=
-Though it is commonly known as ''[[Quo Vadis]]'', the full title of the original novel is  ''Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero'' and was written in Polish by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz]. It tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Lygia (Ligia in Polish) and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero, c. AD 64.
+Though it is commonly known as ''[[Quo Vadis]]'', the full title of the original novel is  ''Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero'' and was written in Polish by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz]. It tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, "Lygia" ("Ligia" in Polish) and "Marcus Vinicius", a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero, c. AD 64.
 First published in installments in three journals (''Gazeta Polska'' - between 26 March 1895 and 29 February 1896 - ''Czas'' and ''Dziennik Poznański''), and as a book in 1896, the novel was translated into more than 50 languages over time. Sienkiewicz received the 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature for ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' and and some of his other novels.

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 === Performance history in South Africa ===
-: Performed as ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' by [[The Holloway Theatre Company]] in Cape Town.
+: Performed as ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' by [[The Holloway Theatre Company]] in Cape Town. In a footnote on p 408, [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980) ascribes the play to "S. Strange", but then adds "Adapted from H. Sienkiewicz's novel by W. Barrett". Since the source for this was [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), who says that "(o)nly the vaguest recollection remains with me of Mr Holloway's ''[[Quo Vadis]]''", it is quite probably that the play performed in this case was in fact ''[[The Sign of the Cross]]''.
 ==''[[Quo Vadis]]'', an opera by  Jean Nouguès and Henri Caïn==

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 https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/creative.php?showid=315973
-[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=sHmHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=Quo+Vadis+by+Stanislaus+Stange&source=bl&ots=FIlahqbUWW&sig=ACfU3U1MgT1Ae0jdn-3dbJRWfDB76Q5GfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYxqrLhdPoAhVSzBoKHZWaCu84ChDoATAAegQICxAn#v=onepage&q=Quo%20Vadis%20by%20Stanislaus%20Stange&f=false]
+J. Richards. 2009. ''The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage''. Springer: p.144[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=sHmHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=Quo+Vadis+by+Stanislaus+Stange&source=bl&ots=FIlahqbUWW&sig=ACfU3U1MgT1Ae0jdn-3dbJRWfDB76Q5GfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYxqrLhdPoAhVSzBoKHZWaCu84ChDoATAAegQICxAn#v=onepage&q=Quo%20Vadis%20by%20Stanislaus%20Stange&f=false]
 J.P. Wearing. 2013. ''The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Scarecrow Press: p. 15, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=o5JWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Quo+Vadis+by+Stanislaus+Stange&source=bl&ots=1PRILS3IaO&sig=ACfU3U33fWR3zD9Gr7Wt75yD_K5igbjdbA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj9-62_dLoAhVPzYUKHYHiAx8Q6AEwD3oECAsQLQ#v=onepage&q=Quo%20Vadis%20by%20Stanislaus%20Stange&f=false]

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 In first played in London at the the Adelphi Theatre from 5 May to 1 June 1900,
-There is a strong possibility that this adaptation may in fact have been partially based on William Barrett's play ''[[The Sign of the Cross]]''.
+There is a strong possibility that this adaptation may in fact have been partially based on William Barrett's play ''[[The Sign of the Cross]]'', rather than the novel alone.
 === Performance history in South Africa ===