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| − | ''[[Le Comte de Monte-Cristo]]'' is the world famous novel by Alexandre Dumas (père, 1802-1870) and of a number of dramatizations of it.
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| − | Widely known by its English title of ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''.
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| − | ==The novel==
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| − | Written by Dumas and his collaborator Auguste Maquet (1813-1888)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Maquet], it was completed in 1844 and serialized (under the name of Dumas) from 1844 to 1846.
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| − | The novel tells the story of Edmond Dantès who, falsely accused and imprisoned without trial in the notorious Château d'If in an island near Marseilles, escapes with the help of a fellow prisoner and later returns as the wealthy as and the revenge he takes on all those who had seen him .
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
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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.)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
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