A Night Off

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Der Raub der Sabinerinnen () is a German comedy by Franz von Schönthan (1849-1913)[] and Paul von Schönthan (1853-1905)[]

Adapted into an English comedy in four acts called A Night Off, or a Page from Balzac by Augustin Daly ()[] and produced at Daly's Theatre, New York on 4 March, 1885. First printed, as manuscript only, for the author, by the press of the Globe Printing Company, Philadelphia, in 1885 and formally published in New York by Fitzgerald Publishing Company, c1897.

Facsimile version of the 1885 manuscript of the English text by Daly, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

Facsimile version of the 1897 English text by Daly, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]