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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
A play based on Acts Chapter 19, in which Demetrios (or Demetrius) the silversmith and a dealer in the trade in silver images of Diana of Ephesus, is confronted and converted by St Paul.[https://www.google.co.za/search?ei=nXcjWv2EFMiFgAb_vLK4AQ&q=diana+of+ephesus+worship+and+Demetrios&oq=diana+of+ephesus+worship+and+Demetrios&gs_l=psy-ab.12...2879.2879.0.4792.1.1.0.0.0.0.341.341.3-1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.JO4kK2J663s]
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A play based on Acts Chapter 19, telling the story of  the silversmith Demetrios (Demetrius) and his struggle with, and conversion by, St Paul.  
  
 
Originally published in ''[[Die Meul Dreun en Ander Toneelwerk]]'' a collection of Malherbe's full-length, by  [[Nasionale Pers]] in 1943, but is later also published as a single text.
 
Originally published in ''[[Die Meul Dreun en Ander Toneelwerk]]'' a collection of Malherbe's full-length, by  [[Nasionale Pers]] in 1943, but is later also published as a single text.

Revision as of 06:10, 3 December 2017

Demetrios is a Biblical play by D.F. Malherbe.

The original text

A play based on Acts Chapter 19, telling the story of the silversmith Demetrios (Demetrius) and his struggle with, and conversion by, St Paul.

Originally published in Die Meul Dreun en Ander Toneelwerk a collection of Malherbe's full-length, by Nasionale Pers in 1943, but is later also published as a single text.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Stellenbosch University Library catalogue

Typed list, E. Reyneke, 1978


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