Nathan van Geneve
Nathan van Geneve is a short Dutch play by Willem Hendrik Warnsinck (1782 – 1857)[1]
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The original text
A short edifying afterpiece about a rich but magnanimous Jew. First performed in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg and published in Amsterdam by Abraham Mars in 1824.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1851: Performed in Dutch as Nathan van Geneve by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 9 October in the Drury Lane Theatre, Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Listige Weduwe, of De Temperamenten (Von Kotzebue).
Sources
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Hendrik_Warnsinck
Facsimile version of the first edition, Google E-book[2]
Online catalogue of Antiqbook auctioneers[3]
G. Kalff, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde. Deel 7. J.B. Wolters, Groningen 1912 [4]
J.G. Frederiks en F. Jos. van den Branden, Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde. L.J. Veen, Amsterdam 1888-1891[5]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [6]: pp. 456, 497
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