De Keukenhelden
De Keukenhelden ("Heroes of the kitchen") is a one-act Dutch farce by C. van Foreest.
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The original text
Based on Les Héros de Cuisine, ou L'enfant de l'Amour, a "tragédie burlesque en 1 acte et en vers" by Jacques André Jacquelin. First performed in Paris, on 2 March 1799 and published by Fages in the same year. Also by Delavigne in 1815. According to Charles Etienne Boniface (cit. Bosman, 1928: p. 276), the French play was itself a parody of Voltaire's five act tragedy Tancrède.
The Dutch text was published anonymously in Amsterdam by Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek, in 1799.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1823: Performed in Dutch by Boniface's company Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense in the African Theatre, Cape Town theatre as on 20 March, with Het Geweten (Iffland).
Sources
http://telechargerpdf2017.info/livre/B001C74KEM-les-heros-de-cuisine
Facsimile of the 1823 French text, Google E-book[1]
Facsimile of the 1799 Dutch text[2]
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Dutch/Ceneton/CenetonIncipits.html
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 275-6
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