Un autre peche originel: l’agression. Eckartshausen–Kótsi Patkó: « Az arany ido » (L’age d’or) de 1798

The manuscript entitled “Inkle és Járikó vagy az Arany idő Érzékeny játék 3 felvonásokban Eckartshausen után Magyar Játék színre alkalmaztatta Kótsi János”, ["Inkle and Járikó" or the "Golden Age" – a sensible play in 3 acts, translated into Hungarian by János Kótsi after Eckartshausen] can be considered the Hungarian version of a Europe-wide very successful play. The play presents an option towards historical criticism, relying on the classical concept of ideal finding and philanthropy and on the concept of didactic theatre (utopia). The determination of the location means also a “return in time” for the contemporary (theatre frequenting) audience who imagined the history of civilization in organic form. The presentation of this play is a story of success: professional actors from Transylvanian presented it in 1798 in Debrecen, and later, multiple times, in Kolozsvár / Cluj, Marosvásárhely / Tîrgu Mureş, Szeged and Pest and it remained in the repertoire for several decades.