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''[[Les Frères à l'Épreuve]]'' ("The brothers tested") is a prose play in 3 acts by Benoît Pelletier-Volméranges.
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== The original play ==
 
 
 
 
 
First performed in the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, on 6 September 1806. Published in Paris by Setier, 1806.
 
 
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
 
Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Broeders Op Den Toets]]'' by Cornelis van der Vijver, published in Amsterdam in 1807 by Van Esveldt Holtrop.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1818: Performed in Cape Town on 23 May 1818 by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]], with the one-act farce ''[[Het Misverstand, of Elk is Een Dief in Zijne Nering|Het Misverstand, of Elk is Een Dief in Zyn Neering]]'' ("K")
 
 
 
1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Broeders Op Den Toets]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 4 June in the [[African Theatre]], with as afterpiece ''[[Uilenspiegel]]'' (Von Kotzebue).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Published text of ''Broeders op den Toets'', Google Books[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=RpNbAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=De+Broeders+Op+Den+Toets&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Gz6JVJfMCYLY7Aa4q4Fo&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=De%20Broeders%20Op%20Den%20Toets&f=false]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 132, 236,
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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