Difference between revisions of "Jeppe på Bjerget"
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
| − | Translated into English as ''[[Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant]]''. | + | Translated into English as ''[[Jeppe of the Hill]]'' ( or ''[[Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant]]''). |
| − | Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Herschapen Boer]]'' ("The transformed farmer") by Dan. Wil. Triller and published in ''Vyf Aardige aardige en vermakelyke blijspelen'' by Lodewyk Holberg (Steven van Estveldt, 1767). | + | Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Herschapen Boer]]'' ("The transformed farmer") by Dan. Wil. Triller and published in ''Vyf Aardige aardige en vermakelyke blijspelen'' by Lodewyk Holberg (Steven van Estveldt, 1767). |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 05:53, 29 March 2018
Jeppe på Bjerget (also Jeppe på bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde or Jeppe paa Bierget eller den forvandlede Bonde, 1722, i.e. "Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant") is a Danish comedy in five acts by Ludvic Holberg (1684-1784)[1]
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The original text
First performed in the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen and also published in Danish in 1722.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as Jeppe of the Hill ( or Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant).
Translated into Dutch as De Herschapen Boer ("The transformed farmer") by Dan. Wil. Triller and published in Vyf Aardige aardige en vermakelyke blijspelen by Lodewyk Holberg (Steven van Estveldt, 1767).
Performance history in South Africa
1869: Performed in Dutch as Barthel, of De Herschapen Boer in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 1 July, with Roland de Monglave, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld (Tréogate). The evening under the patronage of President Brand of the Republic of the Orange Free State.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppe_on_the_Hill
Facsimile version of the 1767 Dutch text, Google E-book[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg
Article on "Denmark" in Don Rubin, Peter Nagy, Philippe Rouyer (eds). 2001. The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 445
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