Die Tochter Pharaonis

("The Daughter of Pharaoh") A one-act comedy by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue.

The original text

Possibly written and performed 1803, published by Wallishausser in 1804

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Dochter van Pharao from the German and published by J.S. van Esveldt Holtrop in 1803.

Translated into English as Pharaoh's Daughter

Performance history in South Africa

1819: Performed in Dutch as De Dochter van Pharao in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 July, with Montoni, of Het Kasteel van Udolpho (Duval).

Sources

http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/aa__001biog10_01/aa__001biog10_01_0371.php

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

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp 134,

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