Das Strandrecht

(lit: "The beach law") A German play by August von Kotzebue

Original text

Performed for the first time on 1 March, 1807 in Munich. First published by Bolling in Augsburg, 1810

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Het Strandregt

Performance history in South Africa

1823: Performed in Cape Town as Het Strandregt by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 26 April 1823, as afterpiece to Natuur en pligt, of de zoon rechter over zijnen vader. (Pelletier-Volméranges). Directed by J.G. de Villiers.

Sources

Münchner Mittwochs- und Sonntagsblatt für den gebildeten und bildungsfähigen Bürger und Landmann in Baiern und in Deutschland überhaupt (January- June 1807)[1]

Bavarian State Library digital archive[2]

Bosman, 1928: pp 234,

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