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The original French play was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Montansier, on 22 November 1791.  
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The original French play was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Montansier, on 22 November 1791. Published by Cailleau, Paris in 1793.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:04, 16 March 2016

Le Désespoir de Jocrisse is a prose comédie-folie in two acts by Dorvigny (Louis-François Archambault, 1742-1812)[1].

The original text

The original French play was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Montansier, on 22 November 1791. Published by Cailleau, Paris in 1793.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Wanhoop van Jocrisse by Hendrik Ogelwight (Junior)[2] in 1798 and published in Amsterdam by Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek.

Performance history in South Africa

1815: The Dutch version performed in Cape Town on 26 September by Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, followed by Eerzucht en Behoefte, of De Huwelyksscheiding uit Liefde (Patrat; tr Kup).


Sources

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorvigny

http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/empire/id/20470

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 139 Go to ESAT Bibliography

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