Der Wildfang
(lit "A trap for wild animals", can also be used metaphorically to refer to a "tomboy". It is variously translated as "The Trapping of Game" by some sources, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, and as "The Madcap" by Hunt and Clarke, the translators of Von Kotzbue's own autobiography in 1827)
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
17 July and 24 July 1802 performed, in the African Theatre, Cape Town by Het Hoogduitsche Toneel-Gezelschap (also called the Liefhebbers van het Toneel en het Muziekgezelschap), along with De Moetwillige Jongen (Kotzebue), possibly in Dutch.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue
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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