Das Kind der Liebe

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(Literally "The child of love") A German play in five acts by August von Kotzebue.


The original text

Written in 1790 and first performed in Reval in 1790, it was published in Leipzig in 1791, with the full title: Das Kind der Liebe, oder: Der Strassenräuber aus kindlicher Liebe.

Made quite famous through an English translation by Elizabeth Inchbald, which features in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park.


Translations and adaptations

At least four English adaptations of the play were published between 1798 and 1800, under various titles: Lovers' Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald (1798); The Natural Son by Anne Plumptre (1798); Lovers’ Vows; or, The Natural Son by Benjamin Thompson (1800); Lovers’ Vows, or The Child of Love by Stephen Porter (1798). Only Elizabeth Inchbald's version appears to have been performed in that time (Covent Garden, 1798).

See also Lovers' Vows)

Performances in South Africa

Inchbald's version also seems to have been the only verions of Von Kotzebue's play performed in South Africa during the 19th century.

See Lovers' Vows for details on these productions

Sources

Johann Jacob Engel. 1992. Briefwechsel aus den Jahren 1765 bis 1802 (edited by Alexander Košenina) Königshausen & Neumann: p. 268[1].


Lovers'_Vows in Wikipedia[2]).

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