Storb et Verner, ou Les Suites d'un Duel

Storb et Verner, ou Les Suites d'un Duel ("Storb and Verner, or The outcome of a duel") is a French play in three acts by P.G.A. Bonel (17**-18**) and Eugène Cantiran de Boirie (1785-1857)[1].

The original text

First performed Paris, Porte-Saint-Martin on 6 April 1805, and published by Barba in 1805.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Storb en Werner, of De Gevolgen van een Tweegevecht by Jean-Gérard Van Beulingen. Performed in the Stads Schouwburg, Amsterdam and published by Abraham Mars 1805.

Performance history in South Africa

1852 Performed in Dutch by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 10 June in the Hoopstraat Skouburg, Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Uniform Rok van Wellington (Von Kotzebue).

Sources

http://www.amazon.fr/Verner-Suites-Boirie-Porte-Saint-Martin-germinal/dp/B001CF9PUS/ref=la_B00IXY9AF6_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427519218&sr=1-15

Facsimile of the original published French text of 1805, Internet Archive[2]

Facsimile of the 1805 Dutch version, Google E-Book[3]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 456,

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