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Die Jammer Hart ("The sorrowing heart") is a one-act play by W.A. de Klerk ().
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The original text
A play about a woman who kills her sick child and then confesses.
Published in Drie Vroue (“Three women”), also containing Die Volmaakte Huwelik and Ontvlugting in 1945. Also published in Bo Die Kranse en ander Eenbedrywe by Tafelberg; in Vyfling by Nasboek; in Skerm en Masker by Van Schaik and in Spel en Spelers by Van Schaik.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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