Difference between revisions of "Elize van Wallenthorst"
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| − | ''[[Elize van Wallenthorst]]'' is an original [[Dutch]] play in three acts by an anonymous author. | + | ''[[Elize van Wallenthorst]]'' is an original [[Dutch]] play in three acts by an anonymous author with the ''nom de plume'' "Pro Virtus et Mores". |
== The original text == | == The original text == | ||
| − | A melodramatic play about the triumph of virtue. A young girl who runs away with an unsuitable man and is chased by her father and a noble suitor, who saves the father's life and wins the girl. Published in 1794. | + | A melodramatic play about the triumph of virtue. A young girl who runs away with an unsuitable man and is chased by her father and a noble suitor, who saves the father's life and wins the girl. Published in 1794 by J.C. Leeuwestijn. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
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| + | Facsimile version of the 1794 [[Dutch]] text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=165pAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=Elize+van+Wallenthorst&source=bl&ots=X7kARa9Kzh&sig=uznu_6UHPoh9C0aRrNQfLkrih0E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj46eu3q_3RAhXhKcAKHe3MB7sQ6AEIHjAB#v=onepage&q=Elize%20van%20Wallenthorst&f=false] | ||
J.A. Worp, Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Deel 2. Wolters, Groningen 1907. pp176-7[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0010.php] | J.A. Worp, Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Deel 2. Wolters, Groningen 1907. pp176-7[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0010.php] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:22, 7 February 2017
Elize van Wallenthorst is an original Dutch play in three acts by an anonymous author with the nom de plume "Pro Virtus et Mores".
Contents
The original text
A melodramatic play about the triumph of virtue. A young girl who runs away with an unsuitable man and is chased by her father and a noble suitor, who saves the father's life and wins the girl. Published in 1794 by J.C. Leeuwestijn.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1835: Produced in Dutch by the Het Tooneellievend en Vereenigd Muzyk Gezelschap (with the motto Door Yver Vruchtbaar) in Stellenbosch on 7 March, with De Brandschatting (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece. The performance was a charity event for the wounded of the so-called "Kaffir War" on the eastern Cape border.
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1794 Dutch text, Google E-book[1]
J.A. Worp, Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Deel 2. Wolters, Groningen 1907. pp176-7[2]
G. Kalff, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde. Deel 6. J.B. Wolters, Groningen 1910 P. 472[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 255
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