Het Bankroet van den Schoenlapper
A Dutch version of a one-act French comedy by Alphonse Martainville, based on an idea by Cam.
See La Banqueroute du Savetier, à propos de botte (Martainville) (1801)
A one-act French comedy by Alphonse Martainville (Alphonse Louis Dieudonné Martainville), an imitation of an Italian painting by Fédérici ( "imité d'un canavas italien de Fédérici").
First performed in Thèátre du Montansier, Paris on 5 Thermidor, an 9
Printed Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1810.
Original text
Translation
Freely translated into Dutch as Het Bankroet van den Schoenlapper ("The Bankruptcy of the Cobbler") by Jan de Quack and published in Amsterdam by Wed. J. de Groot en zoonen, 1804; in Rotterdam by J. Hendriksen, 1804.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in Cape Town in the Bree Street Theatre (cnr of Dorp Street), on 18 May 1854, as an afterpiece to Roland de Monglave, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld (Loaisel Tréogate, tr M.G Engelman)
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp459
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