De Vriend Tegen Wil en Dank

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De Vriend Tegen Wil en Dank (approx. "The friend against all odds") is a Dutch comedy in one act by A.A. van der Stempel Jr (fl 1960s-1870s).


The original text

Written for the Rederijkerskamer Oefening Baart Kunst in Kampen, Holland, and published there in Issue 5 of Thalia, a collection of plays for the rederijkers by K. van der Hulst in 1867.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1869: First performed in the Germania Hall, Cape Town, by Aurora II on 4 August, with Frank, de Gierigaard (Arnold).

1875: Performed in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town on 22 September by the Rederijkerskamer Aurora II, with Broederhaat, of Het Einde van Een Booswicht (Heroldt).

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1867 text[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.464, 470

Ingmar Koch. 1997. Het ochtendgloren boven Kaapstad. Nederlandse rederijkers in Kaapstad, Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans. (4de Jaargang, Nommer 2. Desember)[2]

J.W. Stassen. 1957. Toneel en kultuur. Die ontwikkelingsgeskiedenis van die Hollandse en Afrikaanse toneel en drama in Suid-Afrika. Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat.

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