Barbarey und Grösse

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Barbarey und Grösse ("Cruelty and greatness") is a German tragedy in four acts by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler (between 1756 and 1761? - 1827)[1]

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

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Ziegler

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

Facsimile version of the Dutch text, Google eBook[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: p. 341.


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