August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

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)...

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...