Diderich Menschenskraek
("Diderich the terrible") A Danish play in one act by Ludvig Holberg. Best known in South Africa under the Dutch title Dirk Menschenschrik.
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The original text
The original Danish play performed in the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen and published in 1724
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Dirk Menschenschrik and published in Amsterdam by Steven van Esveldt in 1767 (in the collection Zes aardige en vermakelyke blyspeelen by Lodewyk Holberg (the Dutch version of the author's name).
It has been translated into English as Diderich the Terrible.
Performance history in South Africa
1849: Performed in Dutch by Tot Oefening en Vermaak on 23 August in the Hoopstraat-Skouburg (Hope Street Theatre) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Deserteur (Von Kotzebue).
1849: Performed in Dutch by Tot Oefening en Vermaak on 26 September in the Hoopstraat-Skouburg (Hope Street Theatre) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Molen by Auerstad (Ernst).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg
Facsimile version of the 1767 Dutch text[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=HKY5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.questia.com/library/77697/seven-one-act-plays-by-holberg
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 338, 454
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