The Stranger
An English version of Menschenhass und Reue ("Misanthropy and Repentance"), a drama in five acts by August von Kotzebue, translated into English by Benjamin Thompson as The Stranger, and revised for the stage by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The original German play was produced in 1789–90, and the English version was first performed under the title The Stranger at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in 1798.
The Sheridan version of the play was an immense success, 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.
Performance history in South Africa
1825: Performed on 11 June by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town with 20 percent, or My Father (Author Unknown) as afterpiece.
1855: Performed by G.V. Brooke and company in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on Tuesday 9 January 1855, with Mr Brooke, Miss Cathcart, and a number of amateurs from the Cape. The afterpiece was The Angel of the Attic (J.M. Morton) as afterpiece.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue
Bosman, 1928: pp. 200
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