Lovers’ Vows.
1798 play by Elizabeth Inchbald, an adaptation of August von Kotzebue's ‘Das Kind der Liebe’ (1780)
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About Lovers’ Vows
Lovers' Vows, a 1798 play by Elizabeth Inchbald, arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe, all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as she does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience." Even so, she left the setting as Germany.
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