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A French play in five acts by Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740 – 1814). | A French play in five acts by Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740 – 1814). | ||
| − | First produced in Brest 23 January, 1771 by M. Patrat. Published in Lyon in 1717. | + | ==The original play == |
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| + | First produced in Brest 23 January, 1771 by M. Patrat. Published in Lyon in 1717 by Castaud. | ||
== Translations and adaptations == | == Translations and adaptations == | ||
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First performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1808, and published by Longman et al, London in 1808. | First performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1808, and published by Longman et al, London in 1808. | ||
| − | Translated into [[ | + | Translated into [[German]] as ''[[Der Deserteur]]'' by August von Kotzebue, and into Dutch as ''[[De Deserteur]]'' by Van Holtrop (based on the German version). |
Revision as of 06:05, 18 April 2015
A French play in five acts by Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740 – 1814).
Contents
The original play
First produced in Brest 23 January, 1771 by M. Patrat. Published in Lyon in 1717 by Castaud.
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into English as The Point of Honour, a prose play in three acts by Charles Kemble (1775–1854).
First performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1808, and published by Longman et al, London in 1808.
Translated into German as Der Deserteur by August von Kotzebue, and into Dutch as De Deserteur by Van Holtrop (based on the German version).
Performance history in South Africa
1822: Performed in the Kemble English version by the Garrison Players on 14 September 1822 in the African Theatre, with the burlesque Amoroso, King of Little Britain (Planché)) and The Irishman in London (Wm Macready)
Sources
Facsimile version of 1717 French text, the Digital Archive[1]
Digital facsimile version of 1808 text (A Google E-Book)[2]
Kemble, Charles (DNB00) in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 [3]
Bosman, 1928: pp.182, 191
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