Das Kind der Liebe

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Das Kind der Liebe is a popular late-18th-century sentimental drama by August von Kotzebue that explores themes of illegitimacy, social prejudice, and family reconciliation.

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instanceOf play
sentimental drama
stage work
audience bourgeois theatre-going public
author August von Kotzebue NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Germany
dramaticForm five-act play
genre melodrama
sentimental drama
hasCharacterType aristocrat
bourgeois family
illegitimate child
influenced 19th-century bourgeois drama
language German
literaryPeriod late 18th century
mainTheme family reconciliation
illegitimacy
social prejudice
medium theatre
movement Bürgerliches Trauerspiel NERFINISHED
Sentimentalism
narrativeFocus conflict between personal virtue and social norms
notableFor critique of class prejudice
depiction of illegitimacy as a social issue
emphasis on emotion and virtue
partOf August von Kotzebue’s dramatic oeuvre
resolutionType reconciliation
setting 18th-century European society
tone sentimental
workType spoken drama

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August von Kotzebue notableWork Das Kind der Liebe