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La Comtesse de Moranges is a drame-vaudeville in three acts by Jules de Prémaray (1819-1868)[1].
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Théâtre Beaumarchais, Paris, on 7 November, 1845 and published by Beck in 1845. a French play by Delcourt
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as a comedy in three acts called De Gravin de Moranges by someone referred to as "Zagcwijn" and published in Amsterdam by G. Theod. Bom in 1881.
F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p.451) - or the company doing the play in 1895 - wrongly ascribes the play to "Delcourt".
Performance history in South Africa
1895: Performed in Dutch as De Gravin de Moranges by the Dutch-speaking members of Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the Vaudeville Hall, Cape Town, on 1 October, along with a farce (De Minnebrief van Steven) and a tableau Een Hulde aan Nederlands Koningin ("A tribute to the Queen of the Netherlands").
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1845 French edition, BnF Gallica[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Martial_Regnault_de_Pr%C3%A9maray
Nieuwsblad voor den Boekhandel jrg 48, 1881, no 73, 06-09-1881
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 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: p.451
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