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1818: Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in their own Cape Town theatre as ''[[Het Geweeten]]'' on 5 May, 1818. | 1818: Performed in [[Dutch]] by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in their own Cape Town theatre as ''[[Het Geweeten]]'' on 5 May, 1818. | ||
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Revision as of 05:20, 4 December 2015
("Conscience") A German tragedy in five acts by August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814).
Contents
The original text
Published as Das Gewissen: Ein Burgerliches Trauerspiel in Funf Aufzugen by Walter de Gruyter, 1799 and in W. Iffland's dramatische Werke by G. J. Göschen, 1799.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Het Geweten by Jan Willem Jacobus Steenbergen van Goor, published in Amsterdam by Wed. J. Doll, 1802. (According to F.C.L. Bosman, 1928 this title was spelled Het Geweeten by the Dutch amateur companies performing the work in South Africa in the 19th century.)
Translated into English as Conscience by Benjamin Thompson (1776?-1816). Published in the series German theatre (Vol. 4), printed by J. Cundee, for Vernor and Hood, in 1800.
Performance history in South Africa
1818: Performed in Dutch by Tot Nut en Vermaak in their own Cape Town theatre as Het Geweeten on 5 May, 1818.
1823: Performed in Dutch as Het Geweten by Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense in the African Theatre, Cape Town theatre on 20 March, with De Keukenhelden (Van Foreest).
Sources
http://www.bookdepository.com/Das-Gewissen-August-Wilhelm-Iffland/9783111124056
Published text of Het Gewissen in W. Iffland's dramatische Werke Volume 7, 1799[1]
Published text of Het Geweten, Google Books[2]
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Conscience.html?id=hfz-QAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/321269
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 132, 276
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