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.
Textual Production
Anne Plumptre
The play was an adaptation by Alexander Pope
(not the poet, but a later namesake) from AP
's rendering of Kotzebue
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 2160
AP
's original version was rejected for the stage as insufficiently theatrical.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane West
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.
qtd. in
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.