The German Molière Revival and the Comedies of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Carl Sternheim; Foreword by D.A. Joyce

ISBN-13: 9783631457986 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 209 str.

Dugald S. Sturges

Opis

Although they have yet to be treated together in a comparative study, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Carl Sternheim had a number of points of convergence in their respective searches for a modern form for the serious comedy. This study documents the collegial relationship between the two authors - in part with previously unpublished archival material -, analyses their respective treatments of Moliere's comedies and places this in the context of Moliere's reception in the German-speaking countries since the 17th century. What emerges is a new view of the comedies of Hofmannsthal and Sternheim, which sees both dramatists applying the same technique of countermodelling Moliere's constellations of comedic figures - a modern critical re-appraisal of the traditional comedic type character."

Spis treści

Contents: Hofmannsthal and Sternheim: Fragmentary Chronology of a Collegial Relationship - Molière's Reception in the German-speaking Countries before 1900 - Hofmannsthal and Molière - Sternheim and Molière - From Model to Counter-Model.

O autorze

The author: Dugald S. Sturges was born in 1960 in Glens Falls, New York. He studied German, History and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Maine (B.A. 1982), the University of Edinburgh, Washington University in St. Louis (M.A. 1984), Universität Köln, Universität Bonn and at the University of Toronto (Ph.D. 1991).