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The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's ''[[Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]]'', and was apparently (also?) based on  "Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb", a story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) published in George Cruikshank's ''Comic Almanak for 1840''.   
 
The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's ''[[Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]]'', and was apparently (also?) based on  "Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb", a story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) published in George Cruikshank's ''Comic Almanak for 1840''.   
  
Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" as a type of "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat"), a barber and ** who had become rich.  
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Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" the "barbier en aanspreker" ("barber and orator") as a type of wealthy "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat").  
  
The play was first performed on 5th November 1877 in the Amsterdam Schouwburg and published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879.  
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The play was first performed on 5th November 1877 in the Amsterdam Schouwburg , becoming very popular and frequently performed. The text was published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879.  
  
The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor in the Netherlands.
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The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor for a bumbling person in the Netherlands .
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:13, 14 May 2020

Janus Tulp is a Dutch comedy in four acts by Justus van Maurik Jr (1846-1904)[1].

The original text

The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and was apparently (also?) based on "Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb", a story by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) published in George Cruikshank's Comic Almanak for 1840.

Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" the "barbier en aanspreker" ("barber and orator") as a type of wealthy "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat").

The play was first performed on 5th November 1877 in the Amsterdam Schouwburg , becoming very popular and frequently performed. The text was published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879.

The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor for a bumbling person in the Netherlands .

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1891-1892: Performed in Pretoria by the rederykerskamer Oefening Baart Kunst ("practice brings art") in this period.

Sources

Facsimile version of the original published text of 1879, Google E-book[2]

ONSTAGE (Online Datasystem of Theatre in Amsterdam from the Golden Age to the present, University of Amsterdam)[3]

https://www.ensie.nl/scheldwoordenboek/janus-tulp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_van_Maurik

Lewis Melville. "The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray" in: Richard Pearson (ed.). 2016. The William Makepeace Thackeray Library: Volume VI. Routledge[4]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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