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''[[Blue Devils]]'' is an English farce in one act  by George Colman the Younger, adapted from the comedy ''[[L'Anglais,  ou Le Fou Raisonnable]]'' by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801).  
 
''[[Blue Devils]]'' is an English farce in one act  by George Colman the Younger, adapted from the comedy ''[[L'Anglais,  ou Le Fou Raisonnable]]'' by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801).  
  
See ''[[L'Anglais,  ou Le Fou Raisonnable]]''
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'''See ''[[L'Anglais,  ou Le Fou Raisonnable]]'' '''
  
 
== The original text ==
 
 
''[[L'Anglais,  ou Le Fou Raisonnable]]'' by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801). Originally written as a revue and first performed for the royal family at La Muette on 22 September, at Versailles on 20 and 25 December 1780, and the at Théâtre Variétés Amusantes in Paris on 9 July 1781. Published in a revised form as a comedy in Paris by Brunet, 1782
 
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
Translated and adapted as ''[[Blue Devils]]'' by George Colman the Younger. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London on the 24th of April, 1798. Printed by W. Burton for J. Cawthorn and J. Cawthorn, 1808.
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1823: Listed as performed under the title ''[[Blue Devils|The Blue Devils]]'' by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928, p.197)  on 26 July 1823 in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[English Theatricals]] company,  as an afterpiece to ''[[The Honey Moon]]'' (Tobin).
 
 
1831: Performed on 12 November, by [[All the World's a Stage]] in the [[African Theatre]], as an between  ''[[The Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber]]'' (Fitzball) and ''[[The Two Galley Slaves]]'' (Payne).
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023501
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 197, 218
 
 
 
Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
  
 
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Revision as of 06:49, 2 January 2016

Blue Devils is an English farce in one act by George Colman the Younger, adapted from the comedy L'Anglais, ou Le Fou Raisonnable by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801).

See L'Anglais, ou Le Fou Raisonnable


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