La Prise de Sainte Lucie
La Prise de Sainte Lucie is a French one-act play by Karl Müller Von Friedberg (Karl Franz Alois Matthias Müller von Friedberg, 1755–1836[1]).
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The original text and translations
The play was originally written in French as a one act comedy, dedicated to Her Serene Highness the Princess von Fürstenberg. Published in Lausanne in 1781 by Francois Grasset and Company. Notable is the fact that the characters have the surname "Blanford" in the French version, but "Blandford" in a number of the German and the Dutch versions or references to it (e.g. F.C.L. Bosman, 1928)
Translations and adaptations
The French play was translated into German by an anonymous author and published as Die Eroberung von St. Lucie (Vienna, 1781) and Die Eroberung von Sant Lucia) ( 1781), and later as Blanford und Charlotte, oder Die Eroberung von St. Lucie (dedicated to Miss Charlotte Emmel, Sachenburg, performed in Köln by the Böhmischen Gesellschaft, and published 1782 by Ulrich Weiß und C. L. Brede, Offenbach am Main).
The latter(?) German text was subsequently translated from the German into Dutch as Charlotte Blanford, of De Wedergevonden Vader by Martinus Gerardus Engelman (1772-1823)[2] and published in 1799 by H. van Kesteren, Amsterdam. (Some references, notably Bosman (1928), have the title as Charlotte Blandford, of De Wedergevonden Vader.)
Performances in South Africa
1833: Performed in Dutch as Charlotte Blandford, of De Wedergevonden Vader by "Het Nieuw Stellenbossche Tooneel Gezelschap" ("The new Stellenbosch Theatre Company") Door Yver Vruchtbaar, in the local "Schouwburg" (theatre) on 28 September, with De Dochter van Pharao (Von Kotzebue).
1849: The Dutch version performed as Charlotte Blandford, of De Wedergevonden Vader in Cape Town by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst on 19 June with De Man van Veertig Jaren (Fagan/Kotzebue)as an afterpiece
Sources
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_M%C3%BCller-Friedberg
Facsimile of the 1781 French text of La Prise de Sainte Lucie (Google E-Book)[3]
Facsimile of the 1781 German text of Die Eroberung von Sant Lucia(Google E-Book)[4]
Facsimile of the 1781 German text of Die Eroberung von St. Lucie (Google E-Book)[5]
Facsimile of the 1782 German text of Blanford und Charlotte, oder Die Eroberung von St. Lucie (Google E-Book)[6]
A. B. Saakes, 1800. Naamlijst van Nederduitsche boeken, als mede van Fransche en Latijnsche werken, oratiën, dissertatiën, konstprenten, pourtraitten, landkaarten, enz. gedurende de jaar 1799 in ons vaderland uitgekomen: p. 180 (Google E-Book)[7]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [8]: p.254
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