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Online Books by August von Kotzebue[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Kotzebue%2C%20August%20von%2C%201761-1819]
 
Online Books by August von Kotzebue[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Kotzebue%2C%20August%20von%2C%201761-1819]
  
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Facsimile text of ''Sighs: Or, the Daughter''[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=oy1XmgEACAAJ&dq=August+von++Kotzebue+Armuth+und+Edelsinn&hl=en&sa=X&ei=h6O0VImkFYb2UPyogyA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw]
  
 
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 2. 1971.
 
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 2. 1971.

Revision as of 07:20, 13 January 2015

A German comedy in three acts by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819).

The original text

Published in Leipzig by Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1795.


Translations and adaptations

Like most of Von Kotzebue's works, this play was widely translated and performed in the 19th century.

Dutch

Translated as Armoede en Grootheid, by Cornelis Loots. Published in Amsteldam by P.d. Uylenbroek, 1796.

English

Directly translated as Poverty and Nobleness of Mind by M. Geisweiler in 1799.

Translated "with Alterations" as Sighs: Or, the Daughter by Prince Hoare, also in 1799.


Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Online Books by August von Kotzebue[1]

Facsimile text of Sighs: Or, the Daughter[2]

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 2. 1971.

edited by George Watson, Ian R. Willison; p173[3]



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