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("The English Goods") A comedy in two acts by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. | ("The English Goods") A comedy in two acts by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. | ||
| − | Also known as ''[[Die Verboten Waren]]'' ("The forbidden goods"). | + | Also known as ''[[Die Verboten Waren]]'' ("The forbidden goods"). |
==The original text== | ==The original text== | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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| + | 1829: Performed in [[Dutch]] by the amateur company [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 24 August as afterpiece to ''[[Siegfried von Lindenberg]]'' (Bunsen). | ||
1833: Performed in [[Dutch]] by the amateur company [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 24 August as afterpiece to ''[[Kwade Luim|De Kwaade Luim]]'' (Von Kotzebue). | 1833: Performed in [[Dutch]] by the amateur company [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 24 August as afterpiece to ''[[Kwade Luim|De Kwaade Luim]]'' (Von Kotzebue). | ||
Revision as of 06:03, 18 February 2015
("The English Goods") A comedy in two acts by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Also known as Die Verboten Waren ("The forbidden goods").
Contents
The original text
Published in 1809, and first performed in the Burghtheater, Vienna on 4 August, 1810.
Translations and adaptations
Translated from the German original into Dutch as De Engelsche Goederen by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop and published in 1809.
Performance history in South Africa
1829: Performed in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 24 August as afterpiece to Siegfried von Lindenberg (Bunsen).
1833: Performed in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 24 August as afterpiece to De Kwaade Luim (Von Kotzebue).
1844: Performed in Dutch by the combined company, Het Privaat Hollandsch Tooneellievend Gezelschap playing under the combined motto Tot Nut en Vermaak en Door Yver Vruchtbaar, in the Hope Street Theatre, Cape Town on 15 November, as afterpiece to De Trouwring (Lembert).
Sources
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/De_Engelsche_goederen.html?id=CiASHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Stanley Hochman (ed): McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Volume 1. VNR AG, 1984 p.181[1]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 246, 447
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