Het Kind van den Huize
Het Kind van den Huize ("The child of the house") is a Dutch play in one act by Willem Farber
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The original text
The actual author is uncertain, it could be either the civil servant and writer Eloi Willem Färber (1832-**), or the actor Willem Färber, (1855-1946[1]). The play appears to have been written specifically for the Rederijkers.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1873: Performed by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 3 July, with as an afterpiece Een Offer der Vrijheid, 1762 (Schuitemaker).
Sources
Biographical Index of the Benelux Countries, De Gruyter, 1996[2]
Joris Baers (1888-1975): Algemeene Tooneelbibliotheek Een historische collectie theaterteksten in de Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 468
Ingmar Koch. 1997. Het ochtendgloren boven Kaapstad. Nederlandse rederijkers in Kaapstad, Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans. (4de Jaargang, Nommer 2. Desember) [4]
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