Vader en Zoon
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The original text
A play about the family of Kaiser Frederik Willem I, translated from an unknown German original into Dutch as Vader en Zoon by Jan Hendrik Ankersmit (1825 - 1876)[1], and published in Zwolle by S.H. ten Cate, 1870.
It is not a translation of any one of the number of other works by a similar title, e.g Roderich. Vater und Sohn by J.Schibelt (1783), Väter und Söhne by Ivan Turgenev (1861) or Vater und Sohn by Gustav Esmann(1908).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1874: Produced in Dutch as Vader en Zoon by the amateur company Aurora II on 9 April in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, with as afterpiece Een Oude Rat in de Val (J. Schuitemaker).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1870 Dutch translation, Google E-book[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.468
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