El Mayor Encanto, Amor
El Mayor Encanto, Amor is a festival play by Calderón (Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1600-1681)[1]
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The original text
First performed for the Spanish King on St John's Night (Missummer Nighets Eve) 1835 and published in Madrid by María de Quiñónez, 1637.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as De Toveres Circe by A. Leeuw (Adriaen Bastiaensz de Leeuw), published by Erven Jacob Lescailje, Amsterdam 1690.
It was the source for the libretto of Ulysses und Circe , a three-act German "singspiele" by Berhardt Romberg, performed and published in Berlin, 1807.
Performance history in South Africa
1809: Performed as a ballet in two acts entitled Ulysses op het Eiland van Circé, by a company of young people from the colony. The presentation, accompanied by the three act tragedy Le Comte de Comminge, ou Les Amans Malheureux (D'Arnaud), was done as a benefit for local Widow in straitened circumstances.
Sources
Kristiaan Aercke. 1994. Gods of Play: Baroque Festive Performances as Rhetorical Discourse. SUNY Press: pp. 139-158.[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy.[3]: pp. 127
Facsimile copy of A. Leeuw. 1690. De Toveres Circe. De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL)[4]
Mary Parker. 1998. Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group: pp. 41-2.[5]
Judith Yarnall. 1994. Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress. University of Illinois Press: pp. 158ff.[6]
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