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According to the published English text of 1806, the plot taken from the French comedy ''[[Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens]]'' by Antonio Collalto Matiuzzi (1717?-1778), as well as a Spanish comedy ''[[Los Tres Mellizos]]'', performed in Madrid in the late 1700s or early 1800s. | According to the published English text of 1806, the plot taken from the French comedy ''[[Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens]]'' by Antonio Collalto Matiuzzi (1717?-1778), as well as a Spanish comedy ''[[Los Tres Mellizos]]'', performed in Madrid in the late 1700s or early 1800s. | ||
| − | In actual fact they are all basically the same play: ''[[I Tre Gemelli Veneziani]]'' by Antonio Collalto Matiuzzi. Originally written in Italian when Matiuzzi was at the Theatre Italien in Paris (1759-1778?). (It was apparently in its turn an adaptation of Goldoni’s play ''[[I Due Gemelli Veneziani]]'') Matiuzzi’s original was translated into French by P.-A. Lefèvre de Marcouville as ''[[Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens]]''; performed and published in Paris 1777, also in 1792. Apparently translated into Spanish by an unknown author, as ''[[Los tres mellizos]]'', and performed in Madrid under that title. Hoare had access - directly or indirectly - to at least the plots of both the French and Spanish versions. | + | In actual fact they are all basically the same play: ''[[I Tre Gemelli Veneziani]]'' by Antonio Collalto Matiuzzi. Originally written in Italian when Matiuzzi was at the Theatre Italien in Paris (1759-1778?). (It was apparently in its turn an adaptation of Goldoni’s play ''[[I Due Gemelli Veneziani]]''.) |
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| + | Matiuzzi’s original was translated into French by P.-A. Lefèvre de Marcouville as ''[[Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens]]''; performed and published in Paris 1777, also in 1792. Apparently translated into Spanish by an unknown author, as ''[[Los tres mellizos]]'', and performed in Madrid under that title. Hoare had access - directly or indirectly - to at least the plots of both the French and Spanish versions. | ||
A [[Dutch]] version of [[I Tre Gemelli Veneziani]] was published in Utrecht in 1799, possibly b ased on the published French version. | A [[Dutch]] version of [[I Tre Gemelli Veneziani]] was published in Utrecht in 1799, possibly b ased on the published French version. | ||
Revision as of 07:31, 31 May 2015
A Comic Drama in Three Acts by Prince Hoare (1755-1834), with music by Stephen Storace (1762-1796).
(Storace is credited as main author in some references)
The original text
According to the published English text of 1806, the plot taken from the French comedy Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens by Antonio Collalto Matiuzzi (1717?-1778), as well as a Spanish comedy Los Tres Mellizos, performed in Madrid in the late 1700s or early 1800s.
In actual fact they are all basically the same play: I Tre Gemelli Veneziani by Antonio Collalto Matiuzzi. Originally written in Italian when Matiuzzi was at the Theatre Italien in Paris (1759-1778?). (It was apparently in its turn an adaptation of Goldoni’s play I Due Gemelli Veneziani.)
Matiuzzi’s original was translated into French by P.-A. Lefèvre de Marcouville as Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens; performed and published in Paris 1777, also in 1792. Apparently translated into Spanish by an unknown author, as Los tres mellizos, and performed in Madrid under that title. Hoare had access - directly or indirectly - to at least the plots of both the French and Spanish versions.
A Dutch version of I Tre Gemelli Veneziani was published in Utrecht in 1799, possibly b ased on the published French version.
First Performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1795. Revived in 1805 and played at the Theatres Royal Haymarket and Drury Lane. Published by Barker and Son, 1806.
Performance history in South Africa
1823: A copy of the English text was sought by the Garrison Players in Cape Town . Bosman (1928) has no record of a public performance by them though.
Sources
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-mattiuzzi_(Dizionario_Biografico)/
Facsimile of the 1806 text of The Three and the Deuce! (Google eBook)[1] https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999798814702121
Bosman, 1928: pp. 184,
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