Marietjie van Nijmegen

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A late medieval Dutch text from the early 16th century. The protagonist of the play spends seven years with the devil, after which she is miraculously released. The oldest edition dates from 1515 and was printed by Willem Vorsterman;[1] linguistic evidence suggests it was written by a poet from an Antwerp chamber of rhetoric.[

Afrikaans translation of the Dutch play Mariken van Nieumeghen by ** . Translated by H. J. J. M. Van der Merwe and Alewyn Lee as Marietjie van Nijmegen Published by the Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie (SABC) Johannesburg, 1963, and brqaodcast in the Afrikaans series: Meesterdrama Nasionale handelsdrukkery, 1963


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