Theodore Herman van Beek
Theodore Herman van Beek (18*-19*) was a poet and playwright.
Also found as T.H. van Beek or Theo van Beek
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He wrote the play The Two Kingdoms, described as "A Poetical Drama", about two rival kings - Lerus and Dernilus - in ann ancient and unknown land.
The play text was published, along with Van Beek's poetry in the self-published volume entitled Poems and a Drama (1907). A copy of the text held by NALN.
Sources
https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/07/
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Poems_and_a_Drama.html?id=HlQ2AQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
Copy of a catalogue (handwritten by various hands) of the F.C.L. Bosman collection held at the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum (NALN) in Bloemfontein.
Gosher, Sydney Paul. 1988. A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-act Play Written in English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
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