De Goedhartige Losbol
("The kind-hearted rake") A Dutch version of a French comedy in three acts.
The original French play may possibly have been a three act comedy by Edmé-Guillaume-François Favières entitled Mauvaise tête et bon coeur ("A bad head and a good heart") which was first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, on 10 August, 1789, and published in Paris by Cailleau, & fils in 1790.
Translated into Dutch from the French by an unknown translator as De Goedhartige Losbol. The translation published in Amsterdam by Jan Willem Smit, 1799.
1818: Performed in Cape Town by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 2 December, 1818, with De Deserteur (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece.
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