The Jewess

A play known simply as The Jewess was performed in South Africa in 1901-2, and may have been a version of Franz Grillparzer's Die Jüdin von Toledo (18510[1], Augustin Daly's play or Cheltnam's piece, or else a version of . The Jewess of Toledo (German: Die Jüdin von Toledo) is a play by Franz Grillparzer.

The original text

Written in 1851, it was first performed in Prague in 1872, after Grillparzer's death.

The play is based on the love affair between King Alfonso VIII of Castille and Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman.

Translations and adaptations

In 1919 the play was turned into a German silent film The Jewess of Toledo directed by Otto Kreisler

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewess_of_Toledo#:~:text=The%20Jewess%20of%20Toledo%20(German,la%20Fermosa%2C%20a%20Jewish%20woman.

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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