Der Wildfang
(lit "A trap for wild animals", can also be used metaphorically to refer to a "tomboy". It is variously translated as "The Trapping of Game" by some sources, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, and as "The Madcap" by Hunt and Clarke, the translators of Von Kotzbue's own autobiography in 1827)
A comedy in three acts by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819).
Published in 1798
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by William Dunlap and adapted as a comic opera in four acts under the title The Wild-Goose Chace (sic on the original printed edition, but listed as The Wild-Goose Chase by later critics and authors.) and performed in New York on 24 January 1800. Published there in 1800 by William Dunlap.
Productions in South Africa
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue
Der Wildfang. The Wild Goose Chace; a play in four acts and in prose , with songs by Augustus Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue and William Dunlap[1]
DiGaetani and Sirefman, 1994, Opera and the Golden West: The Past, Present, and Future of Opera in the U.S.A.[2]
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