Limaçon de Dichter

("Limançon the poet") A one-act satirical comedy by Charles Etienne Boniface.

Basically a slight adaptation of De intrigue aan het venster by August von Kotzebue, it was written as an attack on the author's former friend and colleague, the poet and playwright J. Suasso de Lima.

First performed by Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense in the African Theatre, Cape Town, on 20 August 1825 as forepiece to De Vrouw met Twee Mannen (De Pixérécourt).

First published in Cape Town in 1825

Sources

Bosman, 1928: pp 284-285;

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