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| − | ''[[Trente Ans, ou La Vie d'un Joueur]]'' ("thirty years, or the life of gambler") is a melodrama by Victor Ducange (1783-1833)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Henri_Joseph_Brahain_Ducange] and Dinaux (1795-1859)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Goubaux].
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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | Originally written by Jacques Félix Beudin[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_F%C3%A9lix_Beudin] and Prosper Goubaux (1795-1859)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Goubaux], using the pseudonym "Dinaux", and then reworked by Victor Ducange (1783-1833)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Henri_Joseph_Brahain_Ducange]. Described as a "Mélodrame en trois journées" ("A melodrama in three days").
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| − | It was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, on 19 June 1827,with Frédérick Lemaître in the lead. Music by Alexandre Piccini, entertainment ("''divertissement''") by Corally and décor by Lefebvre.
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| − | Published in Paris by Barba in 1827, credited to "MM Victor Ducange et Dinaux" only, with no mention of the original co-author, Jacques Félix Beudin. The play became quite a success and was republished and performed many times, right into the 20th century. A film was made of it in 1975.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Translated into English as ''[[The Gambler's Fate, or A Lapse of Twenty Years]]'' ) and adapted as a drama in two acts by Charles Thompson. (Also known simply as ''[[The Gambler's Fate]]''.) The English translation was hugely popular during the mid 18th century in London. First published in 1827(?) by J. Cumberland.
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| − | Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[Dertig Jaren, of Het Leven van een Dobbelaar]]''. Apparently, according to documents in the [[Dutch]] archival collection "Stukken betreffende leden van de families Vitringa en Van Delden"[http://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?mivast=0&mizig=210&miadt=45&miaet=1&micode=1333&minr=922381&miview=inv2], it was copied from the first performance by A.J. van Delden Stevenz and his text is subtitled "Melodrama in drie tijdperken".
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| − | However the first published [[Dutch]] translation, as ''[[Dertig Jaren, of Het Leven van een Dobbelaar]]'', is credited to Bernard Anthoine Fallée (1773-1847)[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Anthoine_Fall%C3%A9e], subtitled a "tooneelspel, dat in drie dagen afspeelt" ("a play which takes place in three days") and published in Amsterdam by J.C. van Kesteren, 1828.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | According to [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928, p 213), its first production in Cape Town on 5 June by [[H. Booth]] and [[All the World's a Stage]] led to a great deal of critique for the presentation and the text, which the critic of the ''[[Commercial Advertiser]]'' said was "a clumsy adaptation from the German". In response "A British Amateur", writing in the ''[[De Zuid-Afrikaan]]'', stated (correctly) that it was in fact an "almost literal translation" of the French play ''[[La Vie d'un Joueur]]''. However, despite the criticism, it seems to have been to everyone's taste.
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| − | 1830: Performed in English as ''[[The Gambler's Fate]]'' by [[H. Booth]] and [[All the World's a Stage]] on 5 June, with ''[[The Miller's Maid]]'' (Saville) as afterpiece.
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| − | 1830: Repeated by popular demand in English as ''[[The Gambler's Fate]]'' by [[H. Booth]] and [[All the World's a Stage]] on 19 June, with ''[[Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch]]'' (Payne) on 19 June.
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| − | 1835: Performed in English as ''[[The Gambler's Fate, or A Lapse of Twenty Years]]'' by the [[Private Amateur Company]] on 25 May, with a play named as ''[[Mr Thompson, or Which is He?]]'' (Anon) as afterpiece. The performance was a benefit for [[Mr Whiley]].
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| − | 1836: Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 28 October in Cape Town, with as afterpiece to ''[[Der Deserteur|De Deserteur]]'' (Von Kotzebue).
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| − | 1837: Performed in [[Dutch]] by the [[Stellenbossche Liefhebbery Tooneel - Stellenbosch Amateur Theatre]] (under the motto [[Door Yver Vruchtbaar]]) on 19 August, 1837 in Stellenbosch , with as afterpiece to ''[[De Uniformrok van den Veldmaarschalk Wellington]]'' (Von Kotzebue).
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Facsimile of the 1827 French text (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=hgZZwlxzcWoC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=le+joueur+par+Victor+Ducange+en+Dinaux&source=bl&ots=9-FsbeM_yl&sig=hgY_UhoifFKg0U2aRzOhAUTTHj0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tADoVKy6HcitU97ngZAC&ved=0CEcQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=le%20joueur%20par%20Victor%20Ducange%20en%20Dinaux&f=false]
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| − | Facsimile of the [[Dutch]] text (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Ze1TAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Dertig+Jaren,+of+Het+Leven+van+een+Dobbelaar+door+Ducange+en+Dinaux&source=bl&ots=cDi7lSjO1G&sig=aEgUz8j_9AzNLmxYuj95fUChkuU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W_znVLH4CMi4UdSGgNgE&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Dertig%20Jaren%2C%20of%20Het%20Leven%20van%20een%20Dobbelaar%20door%20Ducange%20en%20Dinaux&f=false]
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| − | http://www.worldcat.org/title/gamblers-fate-or-a-lapse-of-twenty-years-a-drama-in-two-acts/oclc/9079808
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| − | http://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?mivast=0&mizig=210&miadt=45&miaet=1&micode=1333&minr=922381&miview=inv2
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| − | http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8427267n/f149.item.hl
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| − | http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_F%C3%A9lix_Beudin
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| − | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Goubaux
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Henri_Joseph_Brahain_Ducange
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.213-4, 248, 255
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