August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

JW provided two prefaces, one to the poems and one to the plays. The latter calls contemporary German playwrights (Schiller , Goethe , Kotzebue ) contemptible in composition. Her...

As a translator AP is best-known for her renderings of the German dramatist Kotzebue ; she also translated a number of far-ranging travel books.

The play was an adaptation by Alexander Pope (not the poet, but a later namesake) from AP 's rendering of Kotzebue .AP 's original version was rejected for the stage as insufficiently theatrical.

Kotzebue is quoted on the title-page.

Most of EI 's plays employ common sentimental comedic plots of marriage choice and sexual intrigue. Set in England and various other countries, they often open with the reappearance of some character from overseas: in...

This play provides a good example of Inchbald's meticulous attention to her working terms and conditions. Harris provided her with a rough translation of the original, Kotzebue 's Das Schreibepult (The Writing Desk)...

The Guardian Angel was published, a somewhat distant translation from Kotzebue which is probably by AP .

AP translated from German seven plays by Kotzebue , a biography of him, and his Miscellaneous Writings.

AP translated Kotzebue 's autobiography as Sketch of the Life and Literary Career of Augustus von Kotzebue, with the Journal of his Tour to Paris at the Close of the Year 1790.

The 1798 instalment of the series consists of three plays, two on love (the comedy The Tryal and the tragedy Count Basil) and one, the tragedy De Monfort, on hate. De Monfort himself...

This poem incorporates the result of serious historical reading, including Anne Plumptre 's translation of Kotzebue 's Die Spanier in Peru and William Robertson's History of America, 1777. Williams's Aztecs are noble...

AP was paid £25 for the use by Sheridan and the Drury Lane Theatre of her translation of Kotzebue 's Die Spanier in Peru.

EI 's Lovers' Vows, adapted from (and toned down from) Das Kind der Liebe by Kotzebue , opened at Covent Garden . Inchbald, who did not speak German, worked from an intermediate literal version...

Another adaptation from Kotzebue by EI , The Wise Man of the East, was performed at Covent Garden ; before the end of the year it was published by Robinsons .

The Count of Burgundy, based on a work by Kotzebue translated by AP , opened at Covent Garden : this was the last stage appearance of the great comic actress Frances Abington .