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Revision as of 06:23, 13 December 2019
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ("Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa") is a German tragedy in two acts by Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)[1]
Also known simply as Fiesco .
Contents
The original text
Described as "Ein republikanishes Trauerspel" ("a republican tragedy"), the play is based on the historical conspiracy of Giovanni Luigi Fieschi[2] against Andrea Doria in Genoa in 1547. It premiered in at the Hoftheaterin Bonn in 1783 and published in Frankfurt and Leipzig by**, 1783.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Fiësko, of De Samenzweering te Genua (a "Republikeinsch treurspel") a number of authors. A version by an unnamed translator was published by P. Meyer en G. Warnars, 1792 (as Volume 22 of Spectatoriaale schouwburg), one by C.M. Plumicke and Iz. de Jongh by Abraham Mars, Amsterdam, in 1800 and yet another version by Jacob Lennep in 1825 by M. Westerman en C. van Hulst.
The German silent film Die Verschwörung zu Genua[3] (1921, directed by Paul Leni) is based on the Schiller play.
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua[4] (A TV version, directed by Theodor Grädler, 1961)
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua[5] (A TV version, directed by Heinrich Koch, 1964)
In 2015 Friedemann Holst-Solbach wrote an opera in three acts called Fiesco[6], based on the play.
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Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Verschw%C3%B6rung_des_Fiesco_zu_Genua
Facsimile version of the 1792 Dutch version, Google E-book[7]
Facsimile version of the 1800 Dutch version, Delpher[8]
Facsimile version of the 1825 Dutch version, Google E-book[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conspiracy_in_Genoa
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611032/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611033/
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 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.203-205
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Return to
Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
Return to The ESAT Entries
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