La Jeunesse de Henri V
La Jeunesse de Henri V is a French prose comedy in three acts by Alexandre Duval (Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval, 1767-1842)[1].
Also found as La Jeunesse d'Henri V
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The original play
Performed in the Théâtre Français, on 9 June, 1806 and at St Cloud before the royal family on 22 June. Published in Paris in 1806.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch by С. Vandevyver/C. vandeVyvere as De Jeugd van Hendrik den Vyfde. Performed on 2 March, 1819 in the "Schauwburg van Rhetorica" in Gand (= Ghent), Belgium.
An English version, entitled Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch was done by John Howard Payne (1791–1852)[2]. Washington Irving (1783–1859). It was based on (and largely an English translation of) Duval's play. Apparently Washington Irving [3] assisted in the writing of the play, but is not credited, or at most is mentioned as "contributor" is some versions, and as "a literary friend" in the Preface by Payne. This version was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Charles Kemble in 1824 and published in London by John Cumberland, in 1824, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, also in 1824.
Translated into English and adapted as
Performance history in South Africa
This play was apparently very popular in Cape Town during the mid-19th century.
1825: Produced in English as The Two Galley Slaves by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 27 August, with as afterpiece the farce X.Y.Z. (Colman the Younger).
1829: Performed in English as The Two Galley Slaves in Cape Town by the Cape Town Amateur Company on 20 June with The Liar (Foote) as afterpiece.
1830: Performed in English in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 19 June, as afterpiece to The Gambler's Fate, or A Lapse of Twenty Years (Thompson). Billed as a "Petite Comedy" on this occasion.
1831: Performed once more ("by special request") in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 11 June, as afterpiece to The School of Reform, or How to Rule a Husband (Th. Morton).
1831: Performed in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 12 November, as afterpiece to The Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber (Fitzball) and Blue Devils (Colman the Younger).
1833: Performed in Dutch as De Jeugd van Hendrik den Vyfde on 10 August Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the African Theatre , with De Helleveeg (Loosjes).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Vincent_Pineux_Duval
Facsimile version of the 1806 edition of the original French play, The Internet Archive[4]
Facsimile version of the 1806 edition of the original French play, Google E-book[5]
Advert for the Schauwburg van Rhetorica in the Journal d'affiches de Gand et de la Flandre, 21 March 1819 (P. 4)[6]
Facsimile version of the Cumberland edition of the English translation of the play, Google E-Book[7]
http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=144
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Payne
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [8]: pp. 218, 255, 320-321, 331. .
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