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''[[Der Raub der Sabinerinnen]]'' () is a German comedy by Franz von Schönthan (1849-1913)[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_und_Paul_von_Sch%C3%B6nthan] and Paul von Schönthan (1853-1905)
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== The original text ==
 
 
 
 
 
Written in von 1883 and first performed in Stettin. Austria, in 1884.
 
 
 
== Translations ==
 
 
 
Adapted into an English comedy in four acts called ''[[A Night Off, or a Page from Balzac]]'' by Augustin Daly ()[] and produced at Daly's Theatre, New York on 4 March, 1885. First printed, as manuscript only, for the author, by the press of the Globe Printing Company, Philadelphia, in 1885 and formally published in New York by Fitzgerald Publishing Company, c1897.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1900: Performed by the [[Herbert Flemming Company]] as part of an extended season in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Raub_der_Sabinerinnen_(Kom%C3%B6die)
 
 
 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_und_Paul_von_Sch%C3%B6nthan
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1885 manuscript of the English text by Daly, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.088260147&view=1up&seq=7]
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1897 English text by Daly, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433043220098]
 
 
 
 
 
[[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.)
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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