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== Translations and adaptations ==
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
  
Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Twee Grenadiers, of Het Misverstand]]'' (The two grenadiers, or the misunderstanding") by Hendrik Kup. The [[Dutch]] version published in Amsterdam by J.C. van Kesteren, 1838.
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Translated into [[Dutch]] as '''''[[De Twee Grenadiers, of Het Misverstand]]''''' (The two grenadiers, or the misunderstanding") by Hendrik Kup. The [[Dutch]] version published in Amsterdam by J.C. van Kesteren, 1838.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:48, 3 September 2016

Les Deux Grenadiers, ou Les Quiproquos ("the two grenadiers or the tit for tats") is a French comedy in three acts by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801)[1].

Original play

First performed at the Théâtre de la Cité, and repeated at the Théâtre Montansier 1790s. Published in Paris by Barba in 1796, then with changes and corrections in Troyes by Gobelet in 1798/99.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Twee Grenadiers, of Het Misverstand (The two grenadiers, or the misunderstanding") by Hendrik Kup. The Dutch version published in Amsterdam by J.C. van Kesteren, 1838.

Performance history in South Africa

1826: Performed in Cape Town in Dutch as De Twee Grenadiers, of Het Misverstand by Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense on 30 April, 1826, along with the one act tragedy Het Toegemetselde Venster by August von Kotzebue.

Sources

Copy in the Digital Library of the Bavarian State Library[2]

Entry on Les Deux Grenadiers, ou Les Quiproquos in Worldcat[3]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 298

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