Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II by Alexandre Dumas

396, that Roebuck may simply have billed it as Monte Christo.)ġ902-8: Possibly performed by Leonard Rayne as part of his season at some point during these years.ĭ.C. His dependence on the success of that play became a cause of great discontent to him, an agonising aspect that his son would later incorporate into his semi-autobiographical masterpiece Long Day's Journey into Night.ġ878: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 27, 28 and 30 May, with Harry Muller playing the lead. In 1883 James O'Neill (the father of playwright Eugene O'Neill) played the lead in a revival of Fechter's version at the Globe, and would going on to perform the role more than 6000 times. The second, more radical, version was by Charles Fechter (), who played the lead himself when it was first performed at the Adelphi in London in October 1868, and would also do so when it was chosen as the inaugural play at the opening of the Globe Theatre, Boston in 1870. Two English adaptations of the novel were published in 1868, the first by Thomas Hailes Lacy, largely based on Dumas' version,

This was originally released in ten weekly installments from March 1846 with six pages of letterpress and two illustrations by M Valentin.Īlexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet wrote a set of four plays that collectively told the story of The Count of Monte Cristo: Monte Cristo Part I (1848) Monte Cristo Part II (1848) Le Comte de Morcerf (1851) and Villefort (1851). The most commonly utilised English version was a translation by an anonymous author, originally published in 1846 by Chapman and Hall. Francis Ainsworth (Ainsworth's Magazine, 1845). The first English version was The Prisoner of If, an abridged summary of the first part of the novel, serialized by W. The novel was translated into many languages, and is widely known in English as The Count of Monte Cristo (sometimes spelled The Count of Monte Christo). Having become extremely wealthy, he later returns as the mysterious and wealthy 'Count of Monte Cristo', to take revenge he takes on all those who had wronged him. The novel tells the thrilling story of Edmond Dantès who, falsely accused and imprisoned without trial in the notorious Château d'If on an island near Marseilles, escapes with the help of a fellow prisoner.

Written in French by Dumas and his collaborator Auguste Maquet (1813-1888), it was completed in 1844 and serialized (under the name of Dumas) in the Journal des Débats from 28 August 1844 to 15 January 1846.

2.2 Performance history in South Africa.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II by Alexandre Dumas