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The nineteenth century can be described as the Melodramatic Era. In the Dutch theatres the public delighted in watching foreign melodramatic plays, usually in translation, like those by the German writers August von Kotzebue and August Wilhelm Iffland, and the French playwright Victor Ducange. This article focuses on the Leiden theatre during the years 1813–1860. What was the repertoire like? How...