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''[[Narcisse, ou L'amant de Lui-même]]'' ("Narcissus, or The lover of himself") is a French comedy in one act by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau].  
 
''[[Narcisse, ou L'amant de Lui-même]]'' ("Narcissus, or The lover of himself") is a French comedy in one act by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau].  
  
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==The original text==
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Written in 1742, when Rousseau was still a youth of 18, and was only performed ten years later by the Comédiens du Roi on 18 December, 1752 and published in February of 1753.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Written when Rousseau was a youth (18 to 22 years of age), it first performed by the Comédiens du Roi on 18 December, 1752 and published in February of 1753.
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
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Translated/adapted into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Medeminnaar van Zichzelven]]'' (lit. "the co-lover of himself") by M. Westerman and described as a [[vaudeville]] or "blyspel met zang in één bedryf" (a "comedy in one act with singing"), it was published in Rotterdam by J. Hofhout en Zoon, 1800, but ascribed to a "Denis Carolet" only.
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
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Apparently was first performed in [[Dutch]] in The Hague in 1805 and later Westerman's [[Dutch]] version was twice performed at the Koninklijke Nederduitsche Schouwburg (Royal Dutch Theatre), The Hague (in 1820 and 1828).
 
  
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
  
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1868: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Medeminnaar van Zichzelven]]''  in Paarl on 26 May by an unnamed company (referred to by Bosman simply as "plaaslike jong liefhebbers" - i.e. "local young amateurs"), without any author or venue being mentioned either.
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
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Facsimile version of the 1800 edition of the [[Dutch]] text by Hofhout, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=clUJy4HefZYC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false]
 
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Gerd Aage Gillhoff. 2013. ''The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876''. Springer:p.203[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=VLoqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA203&lpg=PA203&dq=De+Medeminnaar+van+Zichzelven&source=bl&ots=fQa0yhkJU7&sig=ACfU3U2RkvJX2qUbjj4meZyQ2z6JLIaYiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi239n4itvrAhWQVRUIHZGUCqsQ6AEwAnoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=De%20Medeminnaar%20van%20Zichzelven&f=false]
 
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[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.444
 
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Latest revision as of 07:35, 10 September 2020

Narcisse, ou L'amant de Lui-même ("Narcissus, or The lover of himself") is a French comedy in one act by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)[1].

The original text

Written in 1742, when Rousseau was still a youth of 18, and was only performed ten years later by the Comédiens du Roi on 18 December, 1752 and published in February of 1753.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcisse_ou_l%27Amant_de_lui-m%C3%AAme

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau

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