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A comic opera in one act by Antoine-François Quétant.
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#REDIRECT[[Le Maréchal Ferrant]]
 
 
== Original play ==
 
 
 
The full original title was ''Le Maréchal Ferrant: Opéra Comique En Un Acte'' by Antoine-François Quétant. It was first published and performed in Paris with great success in 1761,  with music by the famous composer (and chess player) François André Danacan Philidor .
 
In 1762 the French text was performed in the Amsterdam theatre. 
 
 
 
 
 
== Translations ==
 
 
 
In 1769 a translation into [[Dutch]] by Jacques Toussaint Neyts (1727-1794), entitled  ''[[De paarde smit]]'', was published in Amsterdam in 1769.
 
 
 
In 1784 another [[Dutch]] translation, entitled ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'', by J. Menkema Jr was published in Amsterdam - this was the text used in South Africa.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1835: ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'', the 1784 [[Dutch]] version by Menkema, was performed by the children's company [[Kunst en Smaak]] in the [[Liefhebbery Tooneel]] on 12 September 1835 (as afterpiece to ''[[Claudine]]'' (Van der Willigen),  repeated on 19 September (alongside ''[[De Twee Jagers en het Melkmeisje]]'' and ''[['t Zal laat Worden]]'' ) and
 
 
 
1836: ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'' performed once more by the children's company [[Kunst en Smaak]] in the [[Liefhebbery Tooneel]] on 10 June, alongside ''[[De Struikroovers van Kalabrien, of De Onveilige Wildernis]]'' (J.-M. Loaisel-Tréogate).
 
 
 
1849: ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'' performed on 8 June by [[Tot Oefening en Vermaak]] in the [[Hoopstraat-Skouburg]],  alongside ''[[Zoé|Zoë, of De Zegepraal eener Standvastige Liefde]]'' (Lijnslager, based on Mercier), and two "divertissements" (''[[Oude Meisjes van drie en vyftig Jaren]]'' and ''[[Die het Schoentje past, die trekt ze aan]]'').
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 271, 274, 453
 
 
 
http://www.forumrarebooks.com/QuEtant-Francois-Antoine-De-hoefsmit-blyspel-met.html
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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