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''[[Eerzucht en Behoefte, of De Huwelyksscheiding uit Liefde]]'' ("Ambition and Want, or The Divorce through Love") is the title of a [[Dutch]] translation of a French tragedy in 3 acts. The origins appear a little uncertain in a number of ways.
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According to Groot (2010, p. 56), this [[Dutch]] text was most probably a translation by Steenbergen van Goor of ''[[Honneur et indigence; ou, Le divorce par amour]]'', by Mathias Weiss and Joseph Patrat,  in its turn a French version of August von Kotzebue's original ''[[Der Opfertod]]''. 
 
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
August von Kotzebue's German play ''[[Der Opfertod]]'' was first performed in 1796, and published by Johann Baptist Wallishauffer in 1798.
 
 
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
The French version, ''[[Honneur et indigence, ou Le divorce par amour]]'',  was first performed at the Théâtre de la Cité- Variété in 1803, and published by in Paris by Huet in the same year.
 
 
 
''[[Eerzucht en Behoefte, of De Huwelyksscheiding uit Liefde]]'', Van Goor's [[Dutch]] translation of the French text, was apparently also performed and published in 1803.
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928, p. 139) refers to a [[Dutch]] translation by H. Kup, but this cannot be traced.
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1815: Performed in Cape Town by [[Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense]] on 26 September, followed by ''[[De Wanhoop van Jocrisse]]'' (Dorvigny). According to [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], (1928, p.556) ''Eerzucht en Behoefte'' was credited to a French version by Patrat (only), and they used a translation by H. Kup. 
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Klaartje Groot. 2010. ''Geliefd en gevreesd: Duits toneel in Nederland rond 1800''. Hilfersum: Uitgewerij Verloren,  p. 56
 
 
 
http://archive.org/details/honneuretindigen00kotz
 
 
 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Opfer-Tod
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 139, 556,
 
 
 
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