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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
Based on the [[Don Juan]] legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year. Shadwell's play is best known in South African through ''[[Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed]]''  a "grand pantomimical ballet" version by Carlo Antonio Delpini (??-1828)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Antonio_Delpini], which was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck".
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Based on the [[Don Juan]] legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:15, 5 September 2019

The Libertine is a tragedy written by Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692)[1]

The original text

Based on the Don Juan legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

1814: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town as a "grand ballet" (attributed to Thomas Shadwell) on 16 April by Mr Cuerton's company, in association with the Garrison Players, followed by a pantomime called Three Witches, or Harlequin Reanimated.

1814: Repeated by Mr Cuerton's company on 13 August with a Pantomime Farce featuring Mr Arnot as "Harlequin" and Mr Cuerton as "Clown".

1860: A performance of a pantomime of Don Juan formed part of the repertoire of the M'Collum's Circus, which played to acclaim in Cape Town for five months. Bosman (1980: p.140) suggests this may be a version based on Shadwell's play The Libertine.)

Sources

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490

http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597

David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown[2]

Facsimile version of Shadwell's The Libertine (1676). Digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive[3]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 145

Sources

Sources

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490

http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597

David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown[5]

Facsimile version of Shadwell's The Libertine (1676). Digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive[6]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [7]: pp. 145

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.140

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