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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1805: Performed in Cape Town on 12 August  by the [[French Amateur Company]], with [[Monsieur Delémery]] in the lead. Also presented were ''[[Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor]]'' (a work devised by [[Monsieur Delémery|Delémery]]?) and ''[[Eraste, ou L'Enfant Proscrit de Son Père]]''.
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1805: Performed in French in Cape Town on 12 August  by the [[French Amateur Company]], with [[Monsieur Delémery]] in the lead. Also presented were ''[[Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor]]'' (a work devised by [[Monsieur Delémery|Delémery]]?) and ''[[Eraste, ou L'Enfant Proscrit de Son Père]]''.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 07:13, 18 May 2016

Le Paysan, Soldat Malgré Lui is the title of a French one-act play by an anonymous author.

The original text

Nothing of substance is known about this text, though François Parfaict and Claude Parfaict (Dictionnaire des Théâtres de Paris, 1756:p.194[1]) do mention a one-act verse play called Le Soldat Poltron (1668)[2], also known as Soldat Malgré Lui, ou l'Epreuve Amoreuse, written by Chevalier (pseudonym of Jean Simonin).

Translations and adaptations

F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 91) suggests that Chevalier's text may have been the original, and that Monsieur Delémery did an adaptation of it under the new title, for performance on his tour and more specifically in Cape Town.

Performance history in South Africa

1805: Performed in French in Cape Town on 12 August by the French Amateur Company, with Monsieur Delémery in the lead. Also presented were Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor (a work devised by Delémery?) and Eraste, ou L'Enfant Proscrit de Son Père.

Sources

Facsimile version of the Dictionnaire des Théâtres de Paris, Google E-book[ https://books.google.co.za/books?id=sK5AAAAAYAAJ&dq=Arlequin,+soldat+malgr%C3%A9+lui&hl=af&source=gbs_navlinks_s]

http://bibliotheque-numerique.nimes.fr/fre/notices/163171-Le-Soldat-poltron-comedie.html

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

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