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| − | ''[[Le Comte de Monte-Cristo]]'' is the world famous novel by Alexandre Dumas (père, 1802-1870)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas] and the title of a number of dramatizations of it.
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| − | Widely known by its English title of ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''.
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| − | ==The novel==
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| − | Written in French by Dumas and his collaborator Auguste Maquet (1813-1888)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Maquet], it was completed in 1844 and serialized (under the name of Dumas) from 1844 to 1846.
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| − | The thrilling novel tells the story of Edmond Dantès who, falsely accused and imprisoned without trial in the notorious Château d'If in an island near Marseilles, escapes with the help of a fellow prisoner and later returns as the mysterious and wealthy Italian "Count of Monte Cristo", to take revenge he takes on all those who had wronged him.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas
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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]]: pp.203-205
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