Jeppe på bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde

Jeppe på bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde ("Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant") is a Danish comedy in five acts by Ludvic Holberg (1684-1784)[1]

Also found as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppe_on_the_Hill

The original text

First published in Danish in 1722

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant.

Translated into Dutch as De Herschapen Boer ("The transformed farmer") by Dan. Wil. Triller and published in Vyf Aardige aardige en vermakelyke blijspelen by Lodewyk Holberg (Steven van Estveldt, 1767).

Performance history in South Africa

1869: Performed in Dutch as Barthel, of De Herschapen Boer in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 1 July, with Roland de Monglave, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld (Tréogate). The evening under the patronage of President Brand of the Republic of the Orange Free State.