Download or read book The German Comedy written by Peter Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landmarks in German Comedy written by Peter Hutchinson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The German Comedy written by Peter Schneider and published by I.B.Tauris. This book was released on 1992 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work introduces us, by means of a series of vignettes, to the changes, large and small, that have taken place in Germany since the dismantling of the Wall. The author argues that the real fear about the new Germany is not the rise of neo-Nazism, but of a cult of righteousness, with its concomitant mistrust of foreigners and especially the threat of the creation of a moral vacuum for a nation so intent on forgetting the ghosts that haunt its past.

Download or read book The Origin of the German Carnival Comedy written by Maximilian Josef Rudwin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Approaches to Comedy in German Drama written by Gillian Pye and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to adopt a holistic method in order to explore the question of comedy as narrative and dramatic structure in a selection of contemporary German language dramas. This book also seeks to suggest some of the ways in which comedy does in fact have a significant role to play in ther German theatre of the late 20th twentieth century.

Download or read book German language Comedy written by Bert Cardullo and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English collection of the greatest comedies written in German from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries. Each of the translated comedies is placed in historical context and in relationship to its author's life as well as his other plays, and each is followed by a select bibliography of English-language criticism and interpretation.

Download or read book ORIGIN OF THE GERMAN CARNIVAL written by Maximilian Josef Rudwin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin of the German Carnival Comedy Our hypothesis will also have served its purpose if it helps us understand better this unique phenomenon in the history of the German drama, the Carnival comedy of the fifteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Comedy in the Weimar Republic written by William Grange and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-10-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre was one of many German institutions experiencing profound change in the aftermath of World War I. Grange contends that had comedy not prevailed throughout the turbulent years of the ill-fated Weimar experiment in democracy, much of theatre would have died along with the republic itself. Audiences attended performances of comedies in numbers far surpassing those of any other form of theatre. Theatre was one of many German institutions experiencing profound change in the aftermath of World War I. Grange contends that had comedy not prevailed throughout the turbulent years of the ill-fated Weimar experiment in democracy, much of theatre would have died along with the republic itself. Audiences attended performances of comedies in numbers far surpassing those of any other form of theatre. Industrial comedy describes the most important and most predominant form of comedy on German stages from 1919 to 1933. Discoveries, reversals, mistaken identities, and abrupt plot twists were its stock-in-trade. Scholars and students of theatre as well as modern German history will find this a fascinating look at why Germans were laughing, and what they were laughing at, as their society crumbled around them.

Download or read book German Comedy written by Peter Schneider and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of Germany after reunification provides anecdotes of the West German people, an East German baker, Bavarian yodelers, Stalinist functionaries, and Western capitalists

Download or read book The Origin of the German Carnival Comedy written by Maximilian Rudwin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to show the growth of the Carnival comedy, the form which the secular drama assumed in medieval Germany, from its earliest beginnings to its culmination in the Fastnachtsspiele of Hans Sachs. It is generally assumed that the secular plays grew out of the comical scenes which had early been introduced into the serious plays. Dr. Rudwin claims an independent origin for the comedy. Just as the Church drama developed out of Christian worship, so the secular drama, the author maintains, originated in the heathen ritual. He then attempts to reconstruct the ancient pagan rites out of the few fragments which have persisted until the present day among the European peasants. He proceeds in much the same way as a scientist reconstructs a dynosaur from the most meagre osseous remains. It is a most ingenious work; and what surprising analogies the pagan beliefs and practices show to Christian creed and cult! This part of the book will interest chiefly the students of the history of religion. The Carnival, the author maintains, was not instituted by the Church. It is of pagan origin. The word "carnival" is not derived, as is generally assumed, from Latin carnem levare, the removal of flesh as food, but from carrus navalis, the ship-cart, which played a very important part in Carnival processions for centuries, and which may still be seen in the modern float. The ship had no relation to the sea, but was a symbol of femininity and hence of productivity. In addition to this ceremony were other charms intended to bring about, through "mimetic" magic, the revival of the earth-the death and resurrection of the fertility god, the burning or burying in effigy of Death or Winter, the bringing in of Life or Summer in a tree or branch procession, and the like. In all these magical rites we see the elements of drama, for the leaf-clad mummer is impersonating the vegetation demon. This masked performer the author considers as the originator of the rough and ready comedy of contemporary men and manners. Very soon the ritual acts, it is claimed, were supplemented by comical scenes in which certain individuals among the spectators were imitated. The Carnival comedy is of country origin, but developed as an art when it later came into the hands of the burghers. In the course of its development it absorbed all the ludi of the Feast of Fools and of the Feast of Boys, the spectacula of the medieval minstrel, the successor to the Roman mimus on the one hand and the Germanic scôp on the other, and was moreover influenced in its literary form by the Church play. This influence, however, was mutual. The sacred and secular plays of the Middle Ages influenced each other to such a degree that it is very difficult to state in definite terms on which side was the greater debt. The similarities between the two types of medieval drama became so great toward the end of the fifteenth century that they imperceptibly merged into each other. To draw a well-defined line of demarcation between the two would thus be a difficult task. -The Open Court, Volume 35 [1920]

Download or read book The Servant in German Enlightenment Comedy written by Alison Scott Prelorentzos and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1982 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description

Download or read book German Classical Drama written by F. J. Lamport and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.

Download or read book The Development of the Comic Figure in the German Drama from the Reformation to the Thirty Years War written by Wilhelma Charlotte Garvin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Comedy in Germany in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century written by Betsy Aikin-Sneath and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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