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Revision as of 20:51, 14 March 2016
Pierrot, ou Le Diamant Perdu is a French vaudeville in 2 acts by Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (1772-1827) and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac (1769-1846)[1]
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris (France) on 11 March, 1813. Published by Barba, Paris in 1813.
Translations and adaptations
Freely translated into Dutch as Meester Vink, of De Vermiste Diamant by C. Alex van Raij (also known as C.A. van Ray or Carel Alexander van Ray, 1780-1842)[2] in 1813. Published by Abraham Mars, Amsterdam in 1813, the French original credited to "Desaugiers and Gentil".
South African performances
1834: Performed in Dutch as Meester Vink, of De Vermiste Diamant by Tot Nut en Vermaak in the African Theatre on 2 August, 1834, as an afterpiece to the tragedy Frederik de Groote te Spandau, of Het Lasterschrift (Duperche and Dorvo)and accompanied by a ballet by C.E. Boniface as interlude.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 147;
http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/
"Théatre de Désaugiers" in the Internet Archive[4]
Facsimile version of the original 1813 French text, Google E-Book[5]
Facsimile version of the original 1813 Dutch text, Google E-Book[6]
http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=ray_001
Go to the ESAT Bibliography
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