Spanier in Peru
work by Kotzebue
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- In August von Kotzebue
His Spanier in Peru (1796) was adapted by the English playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan as Pizarro (1799) and also proved a great success. Kotzebue traveled abroad and spent some time writing for the municipal theatre of Vienna. Upon his return to Russia he was arrested, inexplicably,…
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