Abällino der Grosse Bandit

Abällino, der Grosse Bandit ("Abällino the Great Bandit") is a German 5-act German tragedy by Heinrich Zschokke[1] (1771 - 1848)

The original text

Based on his own novel, Abällino der Grosse Bandit (1793) and it in turn modelled on Schiller's Die Räuber. The play was first produced in 1794, published by Apitz in 1795.

Translations and adaptations

Translations:

The full version translated into Dutch by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop as Aballino de Groote Bandiet (also written Aballino, De Groote Bandiet). The Dutch version first performed ***, published by J. Dóll, [1796], 1805 (3rd edition)

Adaptations:

The play was adapted, much shortened, and totally rewritten as L'homme à Trois Visages, ou Le Proscrit ("The man with three faces, or the exile"), a 3 act melodrama in French, by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt[2]. First performed at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in Paris in 1801.

The three-act version translated into Dutch as De Man in Drie Gedaanten, of De Balling ("The man with three faces, or the exile") by G.L.P. Sievers, and performed in 1801, simultaneously in Amsterdam with the French version in Paris. Published Amsterdam by J. Dóll, 1802.