Janus Tulp
Janus Tulp is a Dutch comedy in four acts by Justus van Maurik Jr ()[].
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The original text
The play is said to have been inspired by Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and was apparently based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Barber Cox, and The Cutting of His Comb. Van Maurik created "Janus Tulp" as a type of "Hollandse burgeredelman" (lit "citizen aristocrat"), a barber and ** who had become rich. The play was published by Scheltema and Holtema, Amsterdam, 1879.
The name "Janus Tulp" has since become a metaphor in the Netherlands.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1891-1892: Performed in Pretoria by the rederykerskamer Oefening Baart Kunst ("practice brings art") in this period.
Sources
Facsimile version of the original published text of 1879, Google E-book[1]
https://www.ensie.nl/scheldwoordenboek/janus-tulp
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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