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("The peace festival") A German play in two acts, with songs, by an unknown author.  
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("The festival of peace") A [[Dutch]] translation by Fokke Simonsz (Arend Simonszoon Fokke) of a (French?) play which deals with the ''Treaty of Amiens'', signed between France and England in 1802.  
  
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
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'''See ''[[Das Friedens-feyer]]'''''
  
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A play announced as ''[[Das Friedens-feyer]]'' was first performed in German in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 12 March 1803 by [[Het Hoogduitsche Gezelschap van het Liefhebbery Theater]] with ''[[Die Ueberrasschung]]'' (Stephanie).
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== Sources ==
  
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Bosman (1928. p. 79) suggests the spelling may actually have been either ''[[Die Freidensfeier]]'' or ''[[Das Friedensfeuer]]'' , and that it was a work by an unknown (French?) author, which deals with the ''Treaty of Amiens'' signed between France and England in 1802. He suggests that the play had been translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[Het Vredensfeest]]'' by Fokke Simonsz (Arend Simonszoon Fokke) in 1802. Of course it may be exactly the opposite, i.e. that Fokke Simonsz's [[Dutch]] translation had in fact been translated into German by the company and performed in Cape Town.
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http://books.google.co.za/books?id=wKlUztGuDmQC&dq=Das+Friedens-feyer&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  
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Another possibility is that the play produced in Cape Town was infact  ''[[Die Friedensfeyer, oder Die unvermuthete Wiederkunft]]'' ("The peace Festival, or The unsuspected return"), a well-known two-act German comedy for children by Christian Felix Weisse (1726–1804), with music by Johann André (1741–1799). This had been published in 1779 in the fifth volume of Weisse's children's journal ''Der Kinderfreund'' ("The Children's Friend"). In this case of course, it is unlikely that it would have been the play translated by Johann André, since the play greatly pre-dates the events in the [[Dutch]] play.
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http://www.worldcat.org/title/friedensfeyer-oder-die-unvermuthete-wiederkunft-ein-lustspiel-fur-kinder-in-zwey-aufzugen-aus-dem-funfzehnten-theile-des-kinderfreundes/oclc/11219790
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 79
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Revision as of 05:51, 8 December 2014

("The festival of peace") A Dutch translation by Fokke Simonsz (Arend Simonszoon Fokke) of a (French?) play which deals with the Treaty of Amiens, signed between France and England in 1802.

See Das Friedens-feyer

Sources

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=wKlUztGuDmQC&dq=Das+Friedens-feyer&source=gbs_navlinks_s

http://www.worldcat.org/title/friedensfeyer-oder-die-unvermuthete-wiederkunft-ein-lustspiel-fur-kinder-in-zwey-aufzugen-aus-dem-funfzehnten-theile-des-kinderfreundes/oclc/11219790

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 79

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Return to

Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays

Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays

Return to PLAYS III: Collections

Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances

Return to South African Festivals and Competitions

Return to The ESAT Entries

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