La Banqueroute du Savetier, à propos de botte

A one-act French comedy/vaudeville by Alphonse Martainville (Alphonse Louis Dieudonné Martainville), based on an Italian framework by Camillo Fédérici (1749-1802).

Original text

First performed in Thèátre du Montansier, Paris on 5 Thermidor, An 9 (23 July, 1801) and printed Paris : Barba, An XI, (1803).

Translation

Freely translated from the French version into Dutch as Het Bankroet van den Schoenlapper ("The Bankruptcy of the Cobbler") by Jan de Quack and published in Amsterdam by Wed. J. de Groot en zoonen, 1804; in Rotterdam by J. Hendriksen, 1804.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in Cape Town in the Bree Street Theatre (cnr of Dorp Street), on 18 May 1854, as an afterpiece to Roland de Monglave, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld (Loaisel Tréogate, tr M.G Engelman)

Sources

http://www.worldcat.org/title/banqueroute-du-savetier-a-propos-de-botte-en-un-acte-et-en-vaudeville-imite-dun-canevas-italien-de-federici/oclc/456741027

http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/empire/id/12600

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Het_bankroet_van_den_schoenlapper.html?id=93yQHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Bosman, 1928: pp. 459

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