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Adapted into French as ''[[Le Mari Ermite]]'' by Jean François Boursault-Malherbe, and presented for tnhe first time at Le Théâtre des Variétés Étrangères on 12 January, 1807 and published by Antoine-Augustyn Renouard in the same year. | Adapted into French as ''[[Le Mari Ermite]]'' by Jean François Boursault-Malherbe, and presented for tnhe first time at Le Théâtre des Variétés Étrangères on 12 January, 1807 and published by Antoine-Augustyn Renouard in the same year. | ||
| − | Translated from the French version into [[Dutch]] by Cornelis van der Vijver as ''[[De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar]]'', published in Amsterdam by J. S. van Esveldt-Holtrop, 1809. | + | Translated from the French version into [[Dutch]] by Cornelis van der Vijver as ''[[De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar]]'' ("the husband hermit"), published in Amsterdam by J. S. van Esveldt-Holtrop, 1809. |
Translated into English by an unknown author as ''[[The Confession]]'' and published 1820. | Translated into English by an unknown author as ''[[The Confession]]'' and published 1820. | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 06:17, 1 September 2016
Die Beichte ("The Confession") is a German one act comedy by August von Kotzebue.
Contents
The original text
Performed by the Hof-Schauspieler-Gesellschaft and published by Bloch in 1805.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted into French as Le Mari Ermite by Jean François Boursault-Malherbe, and presented for tnhe first time at Le Théâtre des Variétés Étrangères on 12 January, 1807 and published by Antoine-Augustyn Renouard in the same year.
Translated from the French version into Dutch by Cornelis van der Vijver as De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar ("the husband hermit"), published in Amsterdam by J. S. van Esveldt-Holtrop, 1809.
Translated into English by an unknown author as The Confession and published 1820.
Performance history in South Africa
1824: Performed in Dutch as De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 28 August in the African Theatre, with De Verkeerde Schaamte (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece.
1824: Performed in Dutch as De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar by Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense on 2 October in the African Theatre, with Tot Middernacht, of List tegen List (Dumaniant).
Sources
Facsimile of the German text, Google Books[1]
Facsimile of the French text, Google Bookshttps://books.google.co.za/books?id=1ao7AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Facsimile of the Dutch text, Google Books[2]
Facsimile of the English text, Google Books[3]
Gerd Aage Gillhoff, 2013, The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876 , Google Books[4]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp 235,
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