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The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's ''[[Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]]'', and was apparently (also?) based on "Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb", a story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) published in George Cruikshank's ''Comic Almanak for 1840''. | The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's ''[[Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]]'', and was apparently (also?) based on "Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb", a story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) published in George Cruikshank's ''Comic Almanak for 1840''. | ||
| − | Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" as a type of "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat") | + | Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" the "barbier en aanspreker" ("barber and orator") as a type of wealthy "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat"). |
| − | The play was first performed on 5th November 1877 in the Amsterdam Schouwburg and published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879. | + | The play was first performed on 5th November 1877 in the Amsterdam Schouwburg , becoming very popular and frequently performed. The text was published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879. |
| − | The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor in the Netherlands. | + | The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor for a bumbling person in the Netherlands . |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:13, 14 May 2020
Janus Tulp is a Dutch comedy in four acts by Justus van Maurik Jr (1846-1904)[1].
Contents
The original text
The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and was apparently (also?) based on "Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb", a story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) published in George Cruikshank's Comic Almanak for 1840.
Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" the "barbier en aanspreker" ("barber and orator") as a type of wealthy "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat").
The play was first performed on 5th November 1877 in the Amsterdam Schouwburg , becoming very popular and frequently performed. The text was published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879.
The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor for a bumbling person in the Netherlands .
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1891-1892: Performed in Pretoria by the rederykerskamer Oefening Baart Kunst ("practice brings art") in this period.
Sources
Facsimile version of the original published text of 1879, Google E-book[2]
ONSTAGE (Online Datasystem of Theatre in Amsterdam from the Golden Age to the present, University of Amsterdam)[3]
https://www.ensie.nl/scheldwoordenboek/janus-tulp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_van_Maurik
Lewis Melville. "The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray" in: Richard Pearson (ed.). 2016. The William Makepeace Thackeray Library: Volume VI. Routledge[4]
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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