Het Testament

Het Testament ("The will") is a Dutch one act play adapted "from the French" (ascribed to a "P. van der Velde" by F.C.L. Bosman, 1980).

The original text

There are two 19th century French plays called Le Testament, and though this play may be a translation and/or adaptation of either (see Le Testament), the Van der Velde work is more likely to be a Dutch version of L'Héritière (1834), a "comédie-vaudeville" by Augustin Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne.

See L'Héritière

Sources

Facsimile version of the original published text of 1823, Internet Archive[1]

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

Facsimile version of the 1834 Dutch text of Het Testament of , Google E-book[3]

Gerd Aage Gillhoff. 2013. The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876. Springer, p. 176[4]

Facsimile version of Le Testament in the Oeuvres de Monsiour De Fontenelle, Google E-book[5]

Facsimile version of the 1797 edition of Le Testament, Google E-book[6]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 465.

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