Download or read book The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth century German Drama written by Brian Murdoch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction. Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo Everyman - Toller's Hinkemann, Borchert's The Man Outside, and Frisch's The Arsonists/Firebugs - but the unprecedented scale of killing in the First and Second World Wars changed the view of death, while in the Cold War the nuclear destruction literally of everyone became a possibility. Brian Murdoch traces the heritage of Everyman in the three plays in terms of dramatic effect, changes in the image of Death, and especially the problem of living with existential guilt. Death, now over-fed, still has to be faced, but Everyman has the harder problem of living with the awareness of human wickedness without the possibility of salvation. All three plays have tended to be viewed in their specific historical contexts, but by viewing them less rigidly and as part of a long dramatic tradition, Murdoch shows that all present a message of lasting and universal significance. They pose directly to the theater audience questions not just of how to cope with death, but how to cope with life.
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Download or read book French Dramatists 1789 1914 written by Barbara T. Cooper and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French dramatists writing during a period when Paris and the provinces saw thousands of dramatic works in a myriad of genres. These plays offered not only entertainment, but broached serious political and social issues as well, during a time of government censorship. Includes information on the various forms of theatrical entertainment, and the various types of playwriting, including melodrama, romantic drama, tragedies, comedies and realistic dramas.
Download or read book Carl Zuckmayer Criticism written by Hans Wagener and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Zuckmayer (1890-1977) was one of the most popular and significant German dramatists of the twentieth century. His folk play The Merry Vineyard (1925) marked the end of German expressionism; his comedy The Captain of Kopenick (1931), a scathing satire on German militarism, and his drama The Devil's General (1946), about a Nazi general and German resistance, were some of the most frequently performed plays in recent German theater history. During the Third Reich Zuckmayer's works were banned in Germany while their author lived as an exile in the United States, trying to survive as a farmer in Vermont. For that reason, Zuckmayer scholarship was off to a slow start. Wagener demonstrates that it received its main impetus from the United States where the majority of dissertations on Zuckmayer were written. He shows the development of scholarship from reviews to general assessments, from positivistic biographical fact finding to the New Criticism and finally to recent modes of critical assessment, including feminist criticism. Wagener draws particular attention to the role of the Carl Zuckmayer Society in critical discourse about this neglected author.
Download or read book Seventeenth Century French Writers written by Françoise Jaouën and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French writers of the seventeenth-century, or Classical century. What best defines the literature of this period are political order and the growing awareness of literature as a separate domain in need of rules and regulations. Discusses the political turmoil during this period as well as the Reformation and the Counter Reformation encouraging research on ancient tests, methods of research, and the standardization of the French language.
Download or read book Nineteenth century American Fiction Writers written by Kent Ljungquist and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on nineteenth-century American fiction writers that suggest a depth and richness marked by both national expansion and regional division. Includes coverage of neglected writers, marking the first meaningful assessment of their lives and roles inthe literary and cultural history of the United States. Contains discussions of two genres, the detective story and the supernatural tale.
Download or read book Nineteenth century French Poets written by Robert Lawrence Beum and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French poets during a vital and prolific era. Covers Romanticism, lyricism, Ultraroyalisme and Eclaircissement, the Parnassians, Decadents, symbolists, intimistes and realists, as well as the proliferation of poetic sects aligned with major idioms, in many cases incorporating something from each other.
Download or read book Pre nineteenth century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers written by William Baker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British book collectors and bibliographers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. This period marked the growth of humanism and coincides with the early Renaissance, before the widespread establishment of print culture. Focuseson the historical evolution of a specific library, as well as a collecting family. Discusses the nature and variety of collecting as a cultural activity.
Download or read book Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely recognized as a major American fiction writer. Discusses the two stages of his career, his transition from a writer of short fiction to novelist, his investigation of the psyche and concern with guilt.Contents provide an insight into the world of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author and the man. He is one of the American authors about whom scholars write most frequently and from whom other writers continue to draw inspiration.
Download or read book American Book collectors and Bibliographers written by Joseph Rosenblum and published by Gale Research International, Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on American booksellers and librarians in addition to book collectors and bibliographers. Discusses how collectors, booksellers, bibliographers and librarians interact as well as the bibliophile's role in scholarship. Provides information on the history of book culture in America.
Download or read book British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960 written by Gina Macdonald and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Australian Writers 1915 1950 written by Selina Samuels and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starting date for this volume is central to Australia's self-definition; it is the year of the most famous battle in Australian military history - Gallipoli, during World War I. It marked the first time that Australians fought as a nation rather than part of the British military, and the Gallipoli campaign has come to signify a legendary image of the Australian character - one who is brave in the face of danger, stoic in adversity, and loyal to ones comrades.
Download or read book Modern French Poets written by Jean-François Leroux and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2002 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French poets of the twentieth-century discusses collective creations, open-ended storytelling, Cubism, surrealism, avant-garde poetry, symbolism, as well as reflections on the various creative processes employed by these French poets.
Download or read book South Slavic Writers Before World War II written by Vasa D. Mihailovich and published by Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Research. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers five literatures - Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian. The writers chosen serve indirectly as a history of each of these literatures in all genres.
Download or read book Russian Literature in the Age of Realism written by Alyssa W. Dinega and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the nineteenth century was a turbulent and momentous time in Russian history, during which were sown the seeds of the revolution that would rout the monarchy and transform Russian society in the next century. In literature, this was the age of the great Realist novel, of the novelists and novels that first put Russian literature on the map of European culture.
Download or read book British Fantasy and Science fiction Writers Since 1960 written by Darren Harris-Fain and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2002 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction discuss the changing attitudes towards this genre, including serious consideration by critics. Covers the publication of science fiction in comic books, limited productions of publications by fan presses, the difference between British and American science fiction, the birth of the New Wave, and the revival of horror fiction as a distinct genre.
Download or read book Gustave Flaubert written by Éric Le Calvez and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and writings of Gustave Flaubert, 19th century French novelist. Includes critical reviews of his major works.
