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''[[Het Dorpspleidooi]]'' ("The town's plea" or "a plea for a town") is a [[Dutch]] a [[Dutch]] [[vaudeville]] (or "blijspel met zang") by C.A van Ray ()[].  
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''[[Het Dorpspleidooi]]'' ("The town's plea" or "a plea for a town") is a [[Dutch]] [[vaudeville]] (or "blijspel met zang") by C.A van Ray ()[].  
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 06:43, 13 September 2019

Het Dorpspleidooi ("The town's plea" or "a plea for a town") is a Dutch vaudeville (or "blijspel met zang") by C.A van Ray ()[].

The original text

The better known by this title, the original being the cumbersome Het Oost-Vriesch Dorps-pleidooi, of De Herbergier Burgemeester ("the East-Frisian town's plea, or the hostelry-keeper mayor"), published in 's Gravenhage by Denzelsden, 1834.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1892: Performed as Het Dorpspleidooi by amateurs drawn from the societies Aurora and De Eendracht in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 5 July, with De Jodin (/Hempel).

Sources

Facsimile version of Naamlijst van uitgekomen boeken, kaarten, prentwerken, enz.: 1834/38, Amsterdam: C.L. Schleier: p.5[1]

Gerd Aage Gillhoff. 1938. The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876. Springer[2]


F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 451

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