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("The confusion, or the headstrong person")  A farce in 4 or 5 acts by August von Kotzebue. 


== Original text ==


First performed and published in 1803.  

== Translations and adaptations ==

Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Verwarring]]'' by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop.
Published in Amsterdam by W. Holtrop, 1803.

 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928, p. 79) suggests that it may have been translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Moetwillige Jongen]]'' by an anonymous author as early as 1802, though there is some doubt about this, since this is a year before the play's original German publication - unless this was a pirated version. The other alternative is that ''[[De Moetwillige Jongen]]'' is an original [[Dutch]] play. ('''See ''[[De Moetwillige Jongen]]''''')

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1802: 17 July and 24 July 1802 ''[[De Moetwillige Jongen]]'' was performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by [[Het Hoogduitsche Toneel-Gezelschap]] (also called the [[Liefhebbers van het Toneel en het Muziekgezelschap]]), along with ''[[Der Wildfang]]'' (Kotzebue).  

1809: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Verwarring]]''   by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 10 June 1809 in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece  to ''[[De Kluizenaar op Formentera]]''  (Von Kotzebue) .

1826: ''[[De Moetwillige Jongen]]'' performed in [[Dutch]] in Cape Town by the children's company [[Tot Oefening en Smaak]] on 8 April, 1826, probably directed by [[Joseph Suasso de Lima]].

1827: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Verwarring]]''   by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 21 April in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece  to ''[[De Moeder des Huisgezins, of Is er Geen Orde voor Edele Huisvrouwen?]]''  (Von Kotzebue).

== Sources ==

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue

http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookinfo.phtml?o=steu&bnr=7481

Text of the first German edition of ''[[Der Wirrwarr, oder der Muthwillige]]''[https://archive.org/stream/dereremitauffor00kotzgoog#page/n3/mode/2up]

Text of the first [[Dutch]] edition of ''[[De Verwarring]]''[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=bW8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=De+Kluizenaar+op+het+Eiland+Formentera&source=bl&ots=p2_-nmYFPE&sig=nf2wyrWJzSxEsnDqAF9xrC2qaTI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w8aHVIrPFoXqUqmqgtgI&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=De%20Kluizenaar%20op%20het%20Eiland%20Formentera&f=false]

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp 131, 270 

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