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| − | ''[[L'Enfant Prodigue]]'' ("The Prodigal Son") is a verse play in five acts by Voltaire (1694-1778)
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| − | It was later also published under the title '''''[[L'enfant Prodigue, ou L'ecole de la Jeunesse]]'''''
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Comédie Française on 10 October,
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| − | 1736. Published in Paris by Prault fils. in 1738.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1893: Performed as ''[[L'Enfant Prodigue]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[Wheeler Company]], with [[Edward Vincent]], [[Helen Rous]], [[Gus Wheatman]], [[Harriet Wood]] and [[Frank Wheeler]].
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Online facsimile version of the original French text of 1738, published by Ernest et Paul Fièvre, January 2018[http://www.theatre-classique.fr/pages/pdf/VOLTAIRE_ENFANTPRODIGUE.pdf]
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| − | Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press: p.516[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ong3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA517&lpg=PA517&dq=Niobe+by+H.+Paulton+and+E.+Paulton&source=bl&ots=UM6HA4q-rm&sig=ACfU3U2Py4dIaZQlJSbIPQsdCrZVPpa6IQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitqLXGj83lAhUSWsAKHRMjD1kQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Niobe%20by%20H.%20Paulton%20and%20E.%20Paulton&f=false]
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| − | [[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.395, 431
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