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== Sources ==
 
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https://archive.org/details/lajeunessedehenr00duvauoft
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1833: Performed in Dutch as ''[[De Jeugd van Hendrik den Vyfde]]'' on 10 August [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[African Theatre]] ,  with ''[[De Helleveeg]]'' (Loosjes).
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==Translations and adaptations==
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== Sources ==
  
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Vincent_Pineux_Duval
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Vincent_Pineux_Duval
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https://archive.org/details/lajeunessedehenr00duvauoft
  
 
Facsimile version of the 1806 edition of the original French play, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=L1Y6AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=La+Jeunesse+de+Henri+V&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB4ba-sYrKAhWKHxoKHT2DAPgQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20Jeunesse%20de%20Henri%20V&f=false]
 
Facsimile version of the 1806 edition of the original French play, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=L1Y6AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=La+Jeunesse+de+Henri+V&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB4ba-sYrKAhWKHxoKHT2DAPgQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20Jeunesse%20de%20Henri%20V&f=false]

Revision as of 07:55, 2 January 2016

A French prose comedy in three acts by Alexandre Duval (Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval, 1767-1842)[1].


The original play

Performed in the Théâtre Français, on 9 June, 1806 and at St Cloud before the royal family on 22 June. Published in Paris in 1806.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch by С. Vandevyver/C. vandeVyvere as De Jeugd van Hendrik den Vyfde.

Translated into English as The Two Galley Slaves, a "Melo-drama, in Two Acts" by John Howard Payne (1791-1852). The translation first performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 18** Published by T.H. Lacy, 18 **/John Cumberland, 18**

Performance history in South Africa

This play was apparently very popular in Cape Town during the mid-19th century.

1825: Produced in English by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 27 August, with as afterpiece the farce X.Y.Z. (Colman the Younger).

1829: Performed in English in Cape Town by the Cape Town Amateur Company on 20 June with The Liar (Foote) as afterpiece.

1830: Performed in English in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 19 June, as afterpiece to The Gambler's Fate, or A Lapse of Twenty Years (Thompson). Billed as a "Petite Comedy" on this occasion.

1831: Performed once more ("by special request") in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 11 June, as afterpiece to The School of Reform, or How to Rule a Husband (Th. Morton).

1831: Performed in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage on 12 November, as afterpiece to The Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber (Fitzball) and Blue Devils (Colman the Younger).

1833: Performed in Dutch as De Jeugd van Hendrik den Vyfde on 10 August Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the African Theatre , with De Helleveeg (Loosjes).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1833: Performed in Dutch on 10 August Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the African Theatre , with De Helleveeg (Loosjes).



Sources

Performance history in South Africa

1833: Performed in Dutch as De Jeugd van Hendrik den Vyfde on 10 August Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the African Theatre , with De Helleveeg (Loosjes).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Vincent_Pineux_Duval

https://archive.org/details/lajeunessedehenr00duvauoft

Facsimile version of the 1806 edition of the original French play, Google E-book[2]

Facsimile version of the 1806 edition of the English translation of the play, Google E-Book[3]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[4]: pp. 218, 255, 320-321, 331. .

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