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''[[Le Verre d’Eau. Les Effets et Les Causes]]'' ("The glass of water. The effects and the causes") is a historical comedy in five acts by Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe].
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== The original French text ==
 
 
 
Set in the court of at the court of Queen Anne of Great Britain during the early 18th century, during the last period of the Spanish War of Succession.
 
 
Written for and performed by the Théâtre Français in 1840.
 
 
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
 
Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[Het Glas Water, of Die Uitwerkingen en De Beweegredenen]]'', by  Carel Alexander van Ray, Published in Amsterdam: Van Kesteren,  1841.
 
 
 
(''Not to be confused with ''[[Het Glas Water]]'', a [[Dutch]] translation of ''[[Das Glas Wasser]]'', a German comedy in two acts by Andreas Joseph von Guttenberg (1770 - 1817).'')
 
 
 
 
 
Translated into English as ''[[A Glass of Water]]''
 
 
 
An adaptation of called '''''[[The Queen's Favourite]]''''' by Sydney Grundy (1848-1914)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Grundy]  was written expressly for Miss [[Geneviève Ward]] and Mr [[W.H. Vernon]]. First performed by them in the Olympic Theatre, London, on 2 June, 1883 and later taken on ttour as part of their repertoire over the years.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1891-2: Performed in Grundy's version as ''[[The Queen's Favourite]]'' by the [[Geneviève Ward Company]] during a tour of nine months throughout South Africa, under the auspices of [[Luscombe Searelle]], featuring [[Geneviève Ward]] and [[W.H. Vernon]] in the leading roles.
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Facsimile version of an annotated version of the French text by Charles Colbeck. (Cambridge University Preass, 1885)[https://archive.org/details/leverredeaucomed00scri]
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe
 
 
 
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=LalPAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
 
 
 
Louis B. Petit, ''Catalogus Bibliotheek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden'', Publisher: Brill Archive, 1887[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=XtEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR83&dq=Een+Glas+Water+AJ+von+Guttenberg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-o3lVIGaN4X3UoO9gPAB&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Een%20Glas%20Water%20AJ%20von%20Guttenberg&f=false]
 
 
 
Bernard Ince. 2013. ''Before Ibsen: The Early Stage Career of Janet Achurch, 1883–89'', Research Gater[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265834883_Before_Ibsen_The_Early_Stage_Career_of_Janet_Achurch_1883-89] (Accessed 31 May 2020.)
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Grundy
 
 
 
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900'' (Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century) Cambridge University Press:p.396  [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=u9s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA396&lpg=PA396&dq=Mammon+a+play+by+Grundy&source=bl&ots=j0f4wiN9ox&sig=ACfU3U0NMzmTpAhxRdd8J6Z43QY6-XQ2GA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL1_f3yN3pAhXTShUIHVCdDmgQ6AEwDXoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Mammon%20a%20play%20by%20Grundy&f=false]
 
 
 
[[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.)
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 392-3
 
 
 
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