Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) is generally considered a pioneer of modern drama. He was praised by Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce among his contemporaries for his versatility, innovativeness, and realism. This Nobel Prize-winning author is here represented by three of his best-loved plays.
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) is generally considered a pioneer of modern drama. He was praised by Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce among his co...
In The End of Me Old Cigar, leading media figures get together for not such shocking reasons as might it first appear. A Sense of Detachment satirizes our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirizes the conventions of its own genre, while also being a close study of sexual warfare.
In The End of Me Old Cigar, leading media figures get together for not such shocking reasons as might it first appear. A Sense of Detachment...
"Bahnwarter Thiel" (1988), by far the best story ever written by Gerhart Hauptmann, follows the principles of the Naturalist movement in its detailed study of the life and milieu of a humble and apparently unexceptional Prussian railwayman. Yet in its exploitation of symbolism, of techniques sometimes close to Impressionism, and in its subtle use of a changing narrative perspective, this Novelle goes beyond the essentially 'scientific' Naturalist approach: Hauptmann thus succeeds in exploring the complex interaction of suppressed social, psychological, physiological, and religious impulses...
"Bahnwarter Thiel" (1988), by far the best story ever written by Gerhart Hauptmann, follows the principles of the Naturalist movement in its detail...
