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Der Furchtsame ("The Fear") is a German comedy in three acts by the Austrian playwright Philipp Hafner (1735 -1764)[1].
Contents
The original text
First performed in the Kaiserlichen Königlichen privilegirten Theater, Vienna
First published in Vienna by Joseph Kurzböcken in 1764.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as a German musical comedy ("Ein Komisches Singspiel In Zwei Aufzügen") with the title Das Neue Sonntagskind (lit: "The new Sunday's Child") by Wenzel Müller (1767–1835)[2], with libretto by Joachim Perinet (1763-1816)[3], and published in Leipzig by A. Geers, 1794.
The original three act play (or the two act musical?) was apparently translated into Dutch as De Vreesachtige uit Vooroordeel, wegens zyne Geboorte op Zondag ("The frightening out of prejudice, because of birth on a Sunday") by Gosenwijn Christiaan de Greuve, and published in 1799/1800.
Translated once more into Dutch, and adapted as a musical, under the title De Nachtmerrie ("The mightmare") or De Nachtmerrie, of De Vampyr ("The mightmare, or the vampire") by G. Vreedenberg (1829/1840)[4]
Performance history in South Africa
1822: Performed in Dutch as a three act comedy called De Vreesachtige uit Vooroordeel, wegens zyne Geboorte op Zondag in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 19 October by Tot Nut en Vermaak, alongside Ransdorp (Van der Wart).
1853: Performed in Dutch as De Nachtmerrie, of De Vampyr in Cape Town in August 1853 by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst, alongside Eleonora van Rosalba, of De Puinhopen van Paluzzi.
Sources
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Hafner,_Philipp
Facsimile version of the first German edition of Der Furchtsame, Google E-book[5]
Facsimile version of the 1804 German edition of Das Neue Sonntagskind, Google E-book[6]
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog/citation?id=2046441
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Dutch/GroteFiles/Ceneton05.html
Gerd Aage Gillhoff. 2013. The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876. Springer.[7]
J. A. Worp. 1907. Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Grongingen. [8]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [9]: pp. 234, 458
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