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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.
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
Bosman, 1928: pp. 199
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