De Burger Edelman

A Dutch translation of Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by C.E. Boniface. The text is unpublished, but the handwritten manuscript of this translation is in the Jardine Collection in the Library of Parliament.

Performed by Honi Soit Qi Mal Y Pense in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 28 May 1825. The cast consisted of Boniface, J. Smalberg, L.E. Meurant, P. Biel, C. Roselt, B. van de Sandt, L.H. Meurant, F. Waldek, W. Brandt, De la Sablonière, A. de Waal, W. Burnett, R.S. Allemann, H. Roselt, De la Colline, A. de Kock, J. de Kock, K. de Kock, J.J. Piton, J. Terhoeven (or J. Terhoven and J. Heroldt. Also three sets of dancers.

See also Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p.124, 281

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