The Libertine

The Libertine is a tragedy written by Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692)[1]

The original text

Based on the Don Juan legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year. Shadwell's play is best known in South African through Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed a "grand pantomimical ballet" version by Carlo Antonio Delpini (??-1828)[2], which was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck".

Sources

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490

http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597

David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown[3]

Facsimile version of Shadwell's The Libertine (1676). Digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive[4]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp. 145

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