Der Stumme

A German comedy in one act by August von Kotzebue,

The original text

Published in 1808.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Spraaklooze by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop and published in 1807.

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Produced in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 12 September in their own theatre, as afterpiece to De Jonge Filosoof, of De Grilligheden van de Fortuin (Tréogate).

Sources

Text of the German edition of 1808, Google Books[1]

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/De_spraaklooze.html?id=dvVvHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 133,

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