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''[[L'Enfant Prodigue]]'' ("The Prodigal Son") is a verse play in five acts by  Voltaire (1694-1778)
 
  
It was later also published under the title '''''[[L'enfant Prodigue, ou L'ecole de la Jeunesse]]'''''
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Comédie Française on 10 October,
 
1736. Published in Paris by Prault fils. in 1738. 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1893: Performed as ''[[L'Enfant Prodigue]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[Wheeler Company]], with [[Edward Vincent]], [[Helen Rous]], [[Gus Wheatman]], [[Harriet Wood]] and [[Frank Wheeler]].
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
Online facsimile version of the original French text of 1738, published by Ernest et Paul Fièvre, January 2018[http://www.theatre-classique.fr/pages/pdf/VOLTAIRE_ENFANTPRODIGUE.pdf]
 
 
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press: p.516[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ong3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA517&lpg=PA517&dq=Niobe+by+H.+Paulton+and+E.+Paulton&source=bl&ots=UM6HA4q-rm&sig=ACfU3U2Py4dIaZQlJSbIPQsdCrZVPpa6IQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitqLXGj83lAhUSWsAKHRMjD1kQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Niobe%20by%20H.%20Paulton%20and%20E.%20Paulton&f=false]
 
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.395, 431
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
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