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(lit "The man of forty years", or "The forty year old man") A German one-act Comedy by August von Kotzebue, freely adapted from ''[[Le Rendez-vous, ou l'Amour Supposé]]'',  a one act French comedy in verse by Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan, (also known as Fagan de Lugny, 1702-1755)
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#REDIRECT [[Le Rendez-vous, ou l'Amour Supposé]]
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
''[[Le Rendez-vous, ou l'Amour Supposé]]'' was first performed in Paris, Théâtre-Français, 27 May 1733.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Freely adapted into German by August von Kotzebue as ''[[Der Mann von Vierzig Jahren]]'', it was first performed in the Königlichen Schaulspielhaus ,  Berlin in 1794 and published in Leipzig  by Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1795.
 
 
 
The Kotzebue version was in turn translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Man van Veertig Jaren]]'' by an unknown author.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1849: The [[Dutch]] version performed in  Cape Town  by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] on 19 June as an afterpiece to ''[[Charlotte Blandford, of De Wedergevonden Vader]]'' (Anon/Engelman)
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy-Christophe_Fagan
 
 
 
Catalogue of the works of August von Kotzebue: Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ), Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB)[http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/index.html?c=autoren_werke&ab=Kotzebue,%20August%20von&l=de]
 
 
 
Gesa Dane. 1994. ''Die heilsame Toilette: Kosmetik und Bildung in Goethes 'Der Mann von fünfzig Jahren'''[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NVEc3sUAgBMC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Der+Mann+von+vierzig+jahren+Kotzebue&source=bl&ots=4PK2uWuTeb&sig=kK-kvzCN1d3ZGpnZFFeZKOnj2jc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=etAUVaWEDsH9Uv7Sg8gH&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Der%20Mann%20von%20vierzig%20jahren%20Kotzebue&f=false]
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1795 German play, HathiTrust Digital Collection[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011819482]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 455,
 
 
 
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