Le Verre d’Eau. Les Effets et Les Causes
Le Verre d’Eau. Les Effets et Les Causes ("The glass of water. The effects and the causes") is a historical comedy in five acts by Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[1].
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The original French text
Set in the court of St James, London , during the last period of the Spanish War of Succession. Written for and performed by the Théâtre Français in 1840.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Het Glas Water, of Die Uitwerkingen en De Beweegredenen, by Carel Alexander van Ray, Published in Amsterdam: Van Kesteren, 1841.
(Not to be confused with Het Glas Water, a Dutch translation of Das Glas Wasser, a German comedy in two acts by Andreas Joseph von Guttenberg (1770 - 1817).)
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Facsimile version of an annotated version of the French text by Charles Colbeck. (Cambridge University Preass, 1885)[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=LalPAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Louis B. Petit, Catalogus Bibliotheek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, Publisher: Brill Archive, 1887[3]
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The Queen's Favourite is a light comedy by Sydney Grundy (1848-1914)[4]
The original text
An adaptation of a play by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861), it was written expressly by Sydney Grundy for Miss Ward and Mr Vernon.First performed by them in the Olympic Theatre, London, on 2 June, 1883
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1891-2: Performed by the Geneviève Ward Company during a tour of nine months throughout South Africa, under the auspices of Luscombe Searelle, featuring Geneviève Ward and W.H. Vernon in the leading roles.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Grundy
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900 (Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century) Cambridge University Press:p.396 [5]
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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