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Kotzebue wrote his highly popular drama '''''[[Die Spanier in Peru oder Rollas Tod]]''''' (1796) as a sequel to this play.  
 
Kotzebue wrote his highly popular drama '''''[[Die Spanier in Peru oder Rollas Tod]]''''' (1796) as a sequel to this play.  
  
The German original was translated and adapted into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Zonnemaagd]]'' ("the sun maiden"), a play in five acts, in 1792, by an unnamed translator.  The [[Dutch]] text published in Ghent by Smit, 1796.
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The German original was translated and adapted into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Zonnemaagd]]'' ("the sun maiden"), a play in five acts, in 1792, by an unnamed translator.  The [[Dutch]] text published in Amsterdam by Dóll, 1795, and in Ghent by Smit, 1796.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:28, 9 June 2020

Die Sonnenjungfrau ("the sun maiden"), is a German play in five acts by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819)[1].

The original text

First produced and published in German in 1791.

Translations and adaptations

Kotzebue wrote his highly popular drama Die Spanier in Peru oder Rollas Tod (1796) as a sequel to this play.

The German original was translated and adapted into Dutch as De Zonnemaagd ("the sun maiden"), a play in five acts, in 1792, by an unnamed translator. The Dutch text published in Amsterdam by Dóll, 1795, and in Ghent by Smit, 1796.

Performance history in South Africa

1869: Produced in Dutch as De Zonnemaagd in the Hofsaal, Malmesbury, on 5 August, with De Korporaal en Het Dienstmeisje (Anon.).


Sources

Facsimile version of the 1796 Dutch translation, Google E-book[2]

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 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.445-6

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