Valmont de Saint Priest, of De Schipbreukeling

Valmont de Saint Priest, of De Schipbreukeling ("Valmont the Saint Priest, or The Castaway") is an original Dutch play by J. E. de Witte van Haemstede.

The original text

Published in Zwolle by Jan de Vri (1800)

Performance history in South Africa

1834: Performed in Dutch on 13 September by Vlyt en Kunst in the Cape Town Theatre , with Castor en Pollux ( by "an amateur" - i.e. Boniface) as intermezzo[1], and Nog Net Zoo (Boniface).

1835: Performed in Dutch on 14 March by Vlyt en Kunst in the Cape Town Theatre , with De Helleveeg (Loosjes).

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1800 Dutch text, Google eBook[2]

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/92076/BibliographicResource_1000056179394.html

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 330-331.

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