Kabale und Liebe

A German play by Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805).

Originally written under the working title Luise Millerin, but changed to Kabale und Liebe for its first performance on 13 April 1784 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in Frankfurt, and on 15 April 1784 in the National Theatre in Mannheim.

Translations and adaptations

Titles for English translations vary greatly, according to the translator: these include Intrigue and Love, Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics, and Luise Miller.

Adapted by Morris Barnett in 1850 under the title Power and Principle

Performance history in South Africa

1853: Performed in Cape Town on Monday 31 October 1853 by the Amateur Company in the Garrison Theatre, alongside Box and Cox (J.M. Morton) and Circumstantial Evidence (Carew).

1977-1979(?): Done in German by SWAPAC in 1977-79?*.