Theodore Herman van Beek

Theodore Herman van Beek (18*-19*) was a poet and playwright.

Also found as T.H. van Beek or Theo van Beek

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

He wrote the play The Two Kingdoms, described as "A Poetical Drama", about two rival kings - Lerus and Dernilus - in ann ancient and unknown land.

The play text was published, along with Van Beek's poetry in the self-published volume entitled Poems and a Drama (1907). A copy of the text held by NALN.

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books?id=HlQ2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/07/

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Poems_and_a_Drama.html?id=HlQ2AQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

Copy of a catalogue (handwritten by various hands) of the F.C.L. Bosman collection held at the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum (NALN) in Bloemfontein.

Gosher, Sydney Paul. 1988. A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-act Play Written in English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pretoria: University of South Africa.

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