Robert, Chef de Brigands
Robert, Chef de Brigands is a French play in five acts by Jean-Henri-Ferdinand Lamartélière (1761-1830)
version of Schiller's five act play Die Räuber, translated and adapted by Jean-Henri-Ferdinand Lamartélière (1761-1830).
French texts
Lamartelière's play was based on Schiller's German play, Die Räuber.
The French version was published as a "drame en cinq actes, en prose, imité de l'allemand, par le citoyen La Martelière" in Maradan (Paris) by Barba in 1793. Performed in Paris.
Another French translation of the Schiller work, by Augustin François Creuzé de Lesser, was entitled Les Voleurs and printed in 1795.
In 1803 a novelization of the French play was done by J.A. Gardy, entitled , Robert de Moldar, Chef de Brigands ou L’mystère d’iniquité, it was published in 1803[1])
See also Die Räuber
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