Dirk Meschenschrik

("Dirk the Terrifying") A Dutch version of Diderich Menschenskraek, a Danish comedy in one act by Ludwig Holberg (1684-1754).

The original text

The original Danish play performed in the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen and published in 1724

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Dirk Meschenschrik and published in Amsterdam by Steven van Esveldt in 1767 (in the collection Zes aardige en vermakelyke blyspeelen by Lodewyk Holberg (the Dutch version of the author's name).

Translated into English as Diderich the Terrible

Performance history in South Africa

1849: Performed in Dutch by Tot Oefening en Vermaak on 23 August in the Hoopstraat-Skouburg (Hope Street Theatre) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Deserteur (Von Kotzebue).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg

Facsimile version of the 1767 Dutch text[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=HKY5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 338, 454

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