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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
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1818: Presented in English as in Cape Town on 30 May by the [[Gentleman Amateurs]] in the [[African Theatre]],  with ''[[Fortune's Frolic]]'' (Allingham) as afterpiece.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 09:01, 13 January 2015

("Poverty and magnanimity") 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 performed in the 19th century, and translated into a number of langueages.

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. Apparently adapted to a play in five acts.

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Presented in English as in Cape Town on 30 May by the Gentleman Amateurs in the African Theatre, with Fortune's Frolic (Allingham) as afterpiece.

Sources

Online Books by August von Kotzebue[1]

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

George Watson and Ian R. Willison (Eds) 1971. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 2: p173[3]



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