The Stranger: A Drama, in Five Acts

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Good Press, Dec 10, 2019 - Drama - 141 pages
"The Stranger" is a play by August von Kotzebue. The language, as well as the plot and incidents, of this play, describe, with effect, those multiplied miseries which the dishonour of a wife spreads around; but draws more especially upon herself, her husband, and her children. Mr. Haller is devastated to learn of his wife's infidelity with a close friend of his. The deserted husband and the guilty wife are both presented to the audience as voluntary exiles from society: the one through poignant sense of sorrow for the connubial happiness he has lost—the other, from deep contrition for the guilt she has incurred.

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