Der Wildfang

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(lit "A trap for wild animals", can also be used metaphorically to refer to a "tomboy". It is translated as "The Trapping of Game" by some sources)

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

Published in 1798


Translations and adaptations

Translated into English by William Dunlap and adapted as a comic opera in four acts under the title The Wild-Goose Chace (sic on the original printed edition, but listed as The Wild-Goose Chase by later critics and authors.) and performed in New York on 24 January 1800. Published there in 1800 by William Dunlap.


Productions in South Africa

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue

http://www.worldcat.org/title/wildfang-ein-lustspiel/oclc/475018414/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true

Der Wildfang. The Wild Goose Chace; a play in four acts and in prose , with songs by Augustus Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue and William Dunlap[1]

DiGaetani and Sirefman, 1994, Opera and the Golden West: The Past, Present, and Future of Opera in the U.S.A.[2]

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