Der Furchtsame

Der Furchtsame ("The Fear") is a German comedy in three acts by the Austrian playwright Philipp Hafner (1735 -1764)[1], first published in 1774.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted and made widely known as a German musical comedy ("Ein Komisches Singspiel In Zwei Aufzügen") with the title Das Neue Sonntagskind (lit: "The new Sunday's Child") by Joachim Perinet, and published in Leipzig by A. Geers, 1794.

Translated into Dutch as De Vreesachtige uit Vooroordeel, wegens zyne Geboorte op Zondag (1799/1800) by Gosenwijn Christiaan de Greuve.

Translated once more into Dutch, and adapted as a musical, under the title De Nachtmerrie or De Nachtmerrie, of De Vampyr by G. Vreedenberg (1829/1840)[2]

Performance history in South Africa

1853: Performed in Dutch as De Nachtmerrie, of De Vampyr in Cape Town in August 1853 by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst, alongside Eleonora van Rosalba, of De Puinhopen van Paluzzi.

Sources

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Hafner,_Philipp

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog/citation?id=2046441

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Dutch/GroteFiles/Ceneton05.html

Gerd Aage Gillhoff. 2013. The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876. Springer.[3]

J. A. Worp. 1907. Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Grongingen. [4]

Bosman, 1928: pp. 234, 458

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