La Comtesse de Moranges
La Comtesse de Moranges is a drame-vaudeville[] in three acts by Jules de Prémaray (1819-1868)[1].
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Théâtre Beaumarchais, Paris, on 7 November, 1845 and published by Beck in 1845. a French play by Delcourt
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as De Gravin de Moranges
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1845 French edition, BnF Gallica[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Martial_Regnault_de_Pr%C3%A9maray
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.203-205
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