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("Dirk the Terrifying") A [[Dutch]] version of ''[[Diderich Menschenskraek]]'', a Danish comedy in one act by  Ludwig Holberg (1684-1754).
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#REDIRECT[[Dirk Menschenschrik]]
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
The original Danish play performed in the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen and published in 1724
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[Dirk Meschenschrik]]'' and published in Amsterdam by Steven van Esveldt in 1767 (in the collection ''Zes aardige en vermakelyke blyspeelen'' by Lodewyk Holberg (the [[Dutch]] version of the author's name).
 
 
 
It has been translated into English as ''[[Diderich the Terrible]]''.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1849: Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Tot Oefening en Vermaak]] on 23 August  in the [[Hoopstraat-Skouburg]] ([[Hope Street Theatre]]) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[De Deserteur]]''  (Von Kotzebue).
 
 
 
1849: Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Tot Oefening en Vermaak]] on 26 September  in the [[Hoopstraat-Skouburg]] ([[Hope Street Theatre]]) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[De Molen by Auerstad]]''  (Ernst).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1767 Dutch text[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=HKY5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
 
 
 
https://www.questia.com/library/77697/seven-one-act-plays-by-holberg
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 338, 454
 
 
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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