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Based on the [[Don Juan]] legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year. Shadwell's play is best known in South African through ''[[Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed]]'' a "grand pantomimical ballet" version by Carlo Antonio Delpini (??-1828)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Antonio_Delpini], which was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck". | Based on the [[Don Juan]] legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year. Shadwell's play is best known in South African through ''[[Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed]]'' a "grand pantomimical ballet" version by Carlo Antonio Delpini (??-1828)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Antonio_Delpini], which was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck". | ||
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Revision as of 06:12, 5 September 2019
The Libertine is a tragedy written by Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692)[1]
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Based on the Don Juan legend, it was first performed in 1676 and published by Henry Herringman in the same year. Shadwell's play is best known in South African through Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed a "grand pantomimical ballet" version by Carlo Antonio Delpini (??-1828)[2], which was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck".
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Sources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490
http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597
David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown[3]
Facsimile version of Shadwell's The Libertine (1676). Digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive[4]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp. 145
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.140
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