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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
A play dealing with the trade in silver images of Diana of Ephesus, and the conversion of the trader Demetrios by St Paul.  
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A play based on Acts Chapter 19, in which Demetrios (or Demetrius) the silversmith and a dealer in the trade in silver images of Diana of Ephesus, is confronted and converted by St Paul.[https://www.google.co.za/search?ei=nXcjWv2EFMiFgAb_vLK4AQ&q=diana+of+ephesus+worship+and+Demetrios&oq=diana+of+ephesus+worship+and+Demetrios&gs_l=psy-ab.12...2879.2879.0.4792.1.1.0.0.0.0.341.341.3-1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.JO4kK2J663s]
  
Originally published in ''[[Die Meul Dreun en Ander Toneelwerk]]'' a collection of Malherbe's full-length, by  [[Nasionale Pers]] in 1943, but is later also published as a single text.
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Originally published in ''[[Die Meul Dreun en Ander Toneelwerk]]'' a collection of Malherbe's full-length, by  [[Nasionale Pers]] in 1943, but is later also published as a single text.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:06, 3 December 2017

Demetrios is a Biblical play by D.F. Malherbe.

The original text

A play based on Acts Chapter 19, in which Demetrios (or Demetrius) the silversmith and a dealer in the trade in silver images of Diana of Ephesus, is confronted and converted by St Paul.[1]

Originally published in Die Meul Dreun en Ander Toneelwerk a collection of Malherbe's full-length, by Nasionale Pers in 1943, but is later also published as a single text.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Stellenbosch University Library catalogue

Typed list, E. Reyneke, 1978


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