Kabale und Liebe

Kabale und Liebe ("Intrigue and Love") is a German play by in five acts by Friedrich Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, 1759–1805)[1] .

The original text

Originally written under the working title Luise Millerin, but changed to Kabale und Liebe for its first performance on 13 April 1784 at the Theatre in Frankfurt am Main, and on 15 April 1784 in the National Theatre in Mannheim.

Translations and adaptations

Titles for English translations vary greatly, according to the translator: these include Intrigue and Love, Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics, and Luise Miller.

Adapted to a play in three-acts by Morris Barnett in 1850 under the title Power and Principle. This translation was first performed in London at the new Strand Theatre on June 10, 1850. Published in London by T.H. Lacy in 1850 (?).

Apparently translated into Dutch as Kabaal en Liefde by **. The translation of the German "Kabale" ("intrigue") as "Kabaal" ("noise") in Dutch is entirely misleading of course.

Performance history in South Africa

1853: Performed in Barnett's English version English of Power and Principle in Cape Town on Monday 31 October 1853 by the Amateur Company in the Garrison Theatre, alongside Box and Cox (J.M. Morton) and Circumstantial Evidence (Carew).

1977-1979(?): Performed in the original German by SWAPAC in 1977-79?*.