Barbarey und Grösse

Barbarey und Grösse ("Cruelty and greatness") is a German tragedy in four acts by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler (1761? - 1827)

The original text

Published Vienna by Wallishausser, 1793

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Wreedheid en Grootmoedigheid ("Cruelty and Kindness") and published by Jan Dóll, (wed.) Amsterdam, 1798

Performance history in South Africa

1838: Performed in Dutch as Het Veemgerigt, of Wreedheid en Grootmoedigheid ("The Judiciary, or Cruelty and Kindness”), by some players from the amateur company Vlyt en Kunst on 3 October in Cape Town , with De Dwarsdryfster (Dufresny).

Sources

http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01263521

Facsimile version of the German text, Google eBook[1]

Facsimile version of the Dutch text, Google eBook[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: p. 341.

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