Landmarks in German ComedyPeter Hutchinson P. Lang, 2006 - 245 σελίδες Public demand for comedy has always been high in the German-speaking countries, but the number of comic dramas that have survived is relatively small. Those which are still read or regularly performed all have a serious purpose, and this collection of fourteen essays on the most distinguished of them shows how laughter can be exploited to treat personal, moral, and social problems in a way that would not be possible in tragedy. The texts range from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century, and no fewer than half of them are by Austrian writers. The contributors show how these plays are often subversive, regularly arousing an uncomfortable, self-challenging laughter, and how they treat such widely ranging subjects as language and communication, the complications of the sex drive, the inflexibility of the Prussian mind, and the behaviour of Austrian celebrities during the Third Reich. The essays are all written by specialists in the field and were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge. |
Περιεχόμενα
PETER HUTCHINSON Introduction | 7 |
CHARLOTTE WOODFORD Gryphius Peter Squentz | 21 |
H B NISBET Lessing Minna von Barnhelm | 37 |
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audience Austrian behaviour Berlin Brecht Büchner Burgtheater Caribaldi carnival century characters comedy comic critics death Der zerbrochne Krug Die letzten Tage drama dramatists Dürrenmatt Elfriede Jelinek example figures Frankfurt Frau Wolff genre Gerhart Hauptmann German comedy Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Grillparzer Grillparzer's grotesque Gryphius's Hauptmann Helene Herr Hofmannsthal Hofmannsthal's Hugo von Hofmannsthal Jelinek's Karl Karl Kraus KATTWALD Kleist Komödie Köpenick Kraus Kraus's language laugh laughter Leon Leonce und Lena Lessing Lessing's letzten Tage literary literature lügt Lustspiel machen Macht der Gewohnheit marriage Minna von Barnhelm modern Molière muß Nestroy Nestroy's performance Peter Hutchinson Peter Squentz Pickelhäring Piramus play play's political Prussian Reigen repetition Romantic satire scene Schnitzler's SCHORSCH Schwierige sense sexual social stage Tage der Menschheit Tellheim theatre theme Thisbe Thomas Bernhard tion traditional tragedy tragic Trout Quintet Vienna Viennese Voigt W. E. Yates Wehrhahn Weinberl Woyzeck Zangler zerbrochne Krug Zuckmayer