L' Enfant Prodigue
L'enfant Prodigue ("The Prodigal Son") is a verse play in five acts by Voltaire (1694-1778)
It was later also published under the title L'enfant Prodigue, ou L'ecole de la Jeunesse
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The original text
First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Comédie Française on 10 October, 1736. Published in Paris by Prault fils. in 1738.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1893: Performed as L'Enfant Prodigue in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, by the Wheeler Company, with Edward Vincent, Helen Rous, Gus Wheatman, Harriet Wood and Frank Wheeler.
Sources
Online facsimile version of the original French text of 1738, published by Ernest et Paul Fièvre, January 2018[1]
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.516[2]
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.395, 431
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