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A drama in five acts by August von Kotzebue. Originally written in1789–90  in German, under the title ''Menschenhass und Reue'' ("Misanthropy and Repentance"), but translated and first performed in English under the title ''[[The Stranger]]'' at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in 1798.
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The play was an immense success in the English version, in both England and the United States, and the play is seen by many as one of the harbingers of the wave of popularity enjoyed by the  melodrama in the nineteenth century.
 
 
 
11 June 1825: Performed by the [[English Theatricals]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town with ''[[20 percent, or My Father]]'' as afterpiece. 
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
17 June 1824: Produced by the [[English Theatricals]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town as afterpiece to ''[[Ivanhoe, or The Jewess of York]]'' (Moncrieff, after Scott).
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley
 
 
 
https://archive.org/details/whosdupefarceint00cowl
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 199
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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