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Le Verre d’Eau. Les Effets et Les Causes ("The glass of water. The effects and the causes") is a historical comedy in five acts by Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[1].
Contents
The original French text
Set in the court of St James, London , during the last period of the Spanish War of Succession. Written for and performed by the Théâtre Français in 1840.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Het Glas Water, of Die Uitwerkingen en De Beweegredenen, by Carel Alexander van Ray, Published in Amsterdam: Van Kesteren, 1841.
(Not to be confused with Het Glas Water, a Dutch translation of the German comedy in two acts by Andreas Joseph von Guttenberg (1770 - 1817).)
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Facsimile version of an annotated version of the French text by Charles Colbeck. (Cambridge University Preass, 1885)[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=LalPAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Louis B. Petit, Catalogus Bibliotheek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, Publisher: Brill Archive, 1887[3]
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