The Count of Monte Cristo
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is the world famous novel by Alexandre Dumas (père, 1802-1870) and of a number of dramatizations of it.
Widely known by its English title of The Count of Monte Cristo.
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The novel
Written by Dumas and his collaborator Auguste Maquet (1813-1888)[1], it was completed in 1844 and serialized (under the name of Dumas) from 1844 to 1846.
The 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 wealthy as and the revenge he takes on all those who had seen him .
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
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 Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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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