De Jonge Filosoof, of De Grilligheden van de Fortuin
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A Dutch version of a French comedy in five acts by J-M Loaisel de Tréogate.
The orginal text
Written in French as La bisarrerie de la fortune, ou le jeune philosophe First performed in the Theatre du Marais on 16 April 1793. Published by Gobelet, 1798, then in a new edition in 1799.
The Dutch text
Translated into Dutch from the second, improved, French edition, by an unknown translator and published in Amsterdam by J. Doll in 1803.
Productions in South Africa
1818: Produced in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 12 September in their own theatre, with the one act comedy De Spraakloze (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece.
