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''[[Masque of the Silver Trees]]'' is an outdoor pageant composed by [[Rene Juta]] in 1909.  
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''[[The Masque of the Silver Trees]]'' is an outdoor pageant composed by [[Rene Juta]] in 1909.  
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== The original text ==
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A neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance, it was inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910.  
 
A neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance, it was inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910.  

Latest revision as of 04:40, 1 May 2017


The Masque of the Silver Trees is an outdoor pageant composed by Rene Juta in 1909.


The original text

A neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance, it was inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910.


Sources

Peter Merrington, State of the Union: The "New Pageantry" and the Performance of Identity in North America and South Africa, 1908-1910, Journal of Literary Studies 15, nos. 1-2 (1999): 238-63.

Jan Juta. 1972. Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa. New York: Charles Scribner‟s Sons: p.52.

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