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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Published in Amsterdam 1887, the play was performed nineteen times by the Nederlandsch Tooneel and seventeen times by the Vereenigde Rotterdamsche Tooneelisten in various venues.
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A Dutch play set in the time of the French revolution and dealing with the life of jan Masseur, a blacksmith and supporter of Robespierre, it was was performed nineteen times by the Nederlandsch Tooneel and seventeen times by the Vereenigde Rotterdamsche Tooneelisten in various venues.
  
==The original text==
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The text was originally published in Amsterdam 1887.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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A scholarly edition of the text, edited for publication and supplied with explanatory notes in [[Dutch]] and [[English]] by "'n Ervaren Onderwijzer" ("an experienced teacher") was published in Cape Town by T. Maskew Miller in 1920. 
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 09:10, 1 May 2022

Jan Masseur is a Dutch play in five acts by Daniël Marthinus Maaldrink (1851-1891)[1].

The original text

A Dutch play set in the time of the French revolution and dealing with the life of jan Masseur, a blacksmith and supporter of Robespierre, it was was performed nineteen times by the Nederlandsch Tooneel and seventeen times by the Vereenigde Rotterdamsche Tooneelisten in various venues.

The text was originally published in Amsterdam 1887.

Translations and adaptations

A scholarly edition of the text, edited for publication and supplied with explanatory notes in Dutch and English by "'n Ervaren Onderwijzer" ("an experienced teacher") was published in Cape Town by T. Maskew Miller in 1920.

Performance history in South Africa

1909: Performed by the literary society Ons Spreekuur (lit. "our speaking hour") in Stellenbosch on 6 and 13 August.

Sources

P.W. van Wissing and J.A.E. Kuys. 1998. Biografisch Woordenboek Gelderland: Bekende en onbekende mannen en vrouwen uit de Gelderse geschiedenis (Part 2), Uitgeverij Verloren: p.69[2]

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

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