Lovers' Vows

by Elizabeth Inchbald. A translation and adaptation of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe.

The original text

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). It was one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe, all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version seems to have been the only one performed and opened at Covent Garden on Thursday, 11 October 1798 and ran for forty-two nights,

Performances in South Africa

1811: Presented in Cape Town on 27 July by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, with Raising the Wind (Kenney) as afterpiece.

1812: Planned for performance in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 17 August, but is postponed to some unknown date.

1824: Presented in Cape Town on 12 June 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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