Le Tambour Nocturne, ou Le Mari Devin
Le Tambour Nocturne, ou Le Mari Devin is a 5 act play, referred to as a Comédie Angloise, by Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680-1754)[1].
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The original text
Written in admiring imitation of the English style (Jonson, Dryden, Congreve, et al) and influenced by and adapted from the popular English comedy The Drummer, or The Haunted House by Joseph Addison (1672-1719), first acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. Published in London by Jacob Tonson, 1715.
Though first published in La Haye in 1737 by Antoine van Dool, the Destouches play was only performed for the first time on 16 October 1762 at the Théâtre Français.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1809: Performed in French in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 11 May by the French Amateurs. Now referred to as a play in four acts, it was followed by Florian's Les Jumeaux de Bergame.
Sources
http://www.amazon.com/Tambour-Nocturne-Mari-Devin-Accommod%C3%A9e/dp/1175245941
Facsimile version of the 1771 edition of the text, Hathi Trust, Google e-book[2]
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.a0004900783
Facsimile version of the 1737 edition of the text, with Preface. Google e-book[3]
Text of The Drummer, or The Haunted House, ECCO TCP: Eighteenth Century Texts[4]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp. 125,
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