Nathan van Geneve
A short Dutch play by Willem Hendrik Warnsinck (1782 – 1841)
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The original text
A short edifying afterpiece about a rich but magnanimous Jew. First performed in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg and published in Amsterdam by Abraham Mars in 1824.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1851: Performed in Dutch as by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 9 October in the Drury Lane Theatre, Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Listige Weduwe, of De Temperamenten (Von Kotzebue).
Sources
Online catalogue of Antiqbook auctioneers[1]
G. Kalff, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde. Deel 7. J.B. Wolters, Groningen 1912 [2]
J.G. Frederiks en F. Jos. van den Branden, Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde. L.J. Veen, Amsterdam 1888-1891[3]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 456
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