Nathan van Geneve

A play by Willem Hendrik Warnsinck (1782 – 1841)

The original text

A short edifying afterpiece about a rich but magnanimous Jew. First performed in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg and published in Amsterdam by Abraham Mars in 1824.

Performance history in South Africa

1851: Performed in Dutch as by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 9 October in the Drury Lane Theatre, Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Listige Weduwe, of De Temperamenten (Von Kotzebue).

Sources

http://www.antiqbook.com/search.php?action=search&l=en&author=Warnsinck&owner_id=-csmx&searchform=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.antiqbook.com%2Findex.php%3Fl%3Den%26o%3D&sort_type=asc&sort_order=author_name+asc%2C+title_first_word&page_num=4

G. Kalff, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde. Deel 7. J.B. Wolters, Groningen 1912 [1]

J.G. Frederiks en F. Jos. van den Branden, Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde. L.J. Veen, Amsterdam 1888-1891[2]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 456

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