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Liefde en Plig ("Love and Duty") a play in verse by Jan F.E. Celliers (1865-1940).
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Written in 1909, this was the first play in verse in Afrikaans. Set in the Anglo Boer War, it tells of a young man's conflict between his feelings for his beloved and his sense of duty urging him to go fight in the war.
Published as Liefde en plig, subtitled an "Afrikaans toneelspel in vier bedrijwe" ("Afrikaans play in four acts") in Amsterdam by the Maatschappij voor goede en goedkoope lectuur, possibly in 1909.
The second act of the play was published in the collection Afrikaanse Letterkunde by D.F. Malherbe.
A reworked version of the play was apparently done by Martie de Villiers and De Wet Laubscher and published in Cape Town by H.A.U.M. (1920-1936)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100637580
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_F.E._Celliers#Drama
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ALaubscher%2C+De+Wet%2C&fq=&dblist=638&qt=first_page
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