Elfride
Elfride is a German tragedy in three acts by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822)[1].
Also found as Elfriede in German.
Contents
The original text
A play about the wife of the wife of the According to the Foreword by the author, the play was based on a passage from The History of England by David Hume[2],
The German play was first performed in 1773.
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into Dutch as Elfride, a tragedy in four acts by Petrus Johannes Kasteleijn (or Kasteleyn, 1746-1794). First performed by the Genootschap van Rhetorica in Cortryk in 1776 and published in in Gent by J.F. van der Scheuren in the same year, and in Amsteldam by D. Klippink in 1783.
Performance history in South Africa
1878: Performed in Dutch in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town by the Rederijkerskamer De Eendracht on 21 and 28 November and 11 December, De Eerste Bruidsdag (Von Kotzebue).
Sources
Facsimile version of the Dutch text of 1776, Google Play[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.450.
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