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''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' ("The sorrowing heart") is a one-act play by [[W.A. de Klerk]] ().  
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''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' ("The sorrowing heart") is a one-act play by [[W.A. de Klerk]] (1917-1996).  
 
 
 
 
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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Digital copy of the text, [[AKDA]][https://akda.co.za/maint/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/2018/09/1947-DIE-JAMMER-HART-WA-de-Klerk.pdf]]
 
 
[[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]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 06:31, 15 June 2022

Die Jammer Hart ("The sorrowing heart") is a one-act play by W.A. de Klerk (1917-1996).

The original text

A play about a woman who kills her sick child and then confesses.

Published in Drie Vroue (“Three women”), also containing Die Volmaakte Huwelik and Ontvlugting in 1945. Also published in Bo Die Kranse en ander Eenbedrywe by Tafelberg; in Vyfling by Nasboek; in Skerm en Masker by Van Schaik and in Spel en Spelers by Van Schaik.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Digital copy of the text, AKDA[1]]

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