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by Elizabeth Inchbald. A very successful play in its time, it is arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed.
It was first performed at Covent Garden on Thursday, 11 October 1798.
Performances in South Africa
12 June 1824: Presented in Cape Town by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, with The Irish Widow (Garrick) as afterpiece.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers'_Vows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Inchbald
Bosman, 1928: pp 198-199,
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