Dood of Niet Dood

Dood of Niet Dood ("dead or alive", lit "dead or not dead") is a Dutch tragedy in three acts by Jeroom Noterdaeme (1862-1933)[1].

The original text

No trace of a text of, or reference to, such a play with this specific name has yet been found , except for the reference on page 467 in Bosman (1980).

However, it could just possibly be an adapted version of De Losbollen, of De Gewaande Doode ("the vagrants, or the supposed dead person"), a Dutch translation by J. Helders en A. Mars, of Les Étourdis, ou Le Mort Supposé ("the stunned, or the supposed death"). The French play is a comedy in three acts by François Andrieux (1759–1833)[2], first performed by the Comédiens Italiens ordinaires du Roi at Versaille and at the Théâtre-Italien, in 1788. Printed in Paris by Didot in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa

1872: Performed in Dutch as Dood of Niet Dood by Aurora II in the hall of the Germania Hall, Cape Town on 4 June, with De Drie Verliefde Schoolmeesters (Brink).

Sources

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroom_Noterdaeme

Ingmar Koch. 1997. Het ochtendgloren boven Kaapstad. Nederlandse rederijkers in Kaapstad, Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans. (4de Jaargang, Nommer 2. Desember) [3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 467

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