Vader en Zoon

From ESAT
Revision as of 07:09, 14 February 2018 by Satj (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Vader en Zoon is a Dutch play in five acts by Jan Hendrik Ankersmit (1825 - 1876)[1].

The original text

A play about the family of Kaiser Frederik Willem I, based on and translated from an unknown German original into Dutch as Vader en Zoon and published in Zwolle by S.H. ten Cate, 1870.

It is not a translation of any one of the number of other works by a similar title, e.g Roderich. Vater und Sohn by J.Schibelt (1783), Väter und Söhne by Ivan Turgenev (1861) or Vater und Sohn by Gustav Esmann(1908).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1874: Produced in Dutch as Vader en Zoon by the amateur company Aurora II on 9 April in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, with as afterpiece Een Oude Rat in de Val (J. Schuitemaker).

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1870 Dutch translation, Google E-book[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.468

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Return to

Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays

Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays

Return to PLAYS III: Collections

Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances

Return to South African Festivals and Competitions

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page