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Der Aufstand war in der Fruhen Neuzeit eine gewohnliche soziale Form im Leben der Unterschichten. Der Theorie nach war vom "unverstandigen Pobel" kein eigenstandiges politisches Handeln zu erwarten, obwohl man die gesamte "westeuropaische Kultur" mit Freud als Produkt der "Angst vor dem Aufstand der Unterdruckten" bezeichnen konnte. Die Dramatiker der Zeit aber hatten auf die >Gesten des VolksaufstandsVolk in der Revolte

Klopstock considered hymn writing to be his second vocation. In his hymns he abandoned the exalted tone of his odes, choosing a simpler, more appropriate mode of expression for the liturgy of the divine service. This volume presents the first critical edition of the hymns and prefaces published in 1757 and 1769, the first versions of the "Altered Hymns" (rewritten chorale texts) contained in the first part and two hymns from Klopstock's unpublished works. As hymn writer Klopstock is rooted in the Lutheran tradition, but his powerful mastery of the language, his enthusiastic adoration of...

Die 1876 von Wilhelm Braune als Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts begrundete Reihe wird seit 1961 in einer neuen Folge fortgefuhrt. Je nach Eigenart und Bedeutung der Autoren und Werke finden Gesamtausgaben ebenso Aufnahme wie Auswahlausgaben oder Einzelwerke, fur die ihrer Bedeutung und Uberlieferung wegen eine kritische Edition erforderlich ist.

Characters: 9 male, 5 female, plus various minor roles, gypsies, and extras.

2 Interior Sets/2 Exterior Sets

A brilliant and penetrating satire about an unemployed man who contemplates suicide and is besieged by spokespeople of discontented groups, from butchers to intellectuals, who want him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf. Erdman's genius was recognized by his contemporaries including Brecht, Stanislavsky and Meyerhold. The latter two competed to do The Suicide. Stalin gave permission to present the play only after Gorki pleaded with him, but...

- Ruhl's Orlando] captures both the intellectual spirit and the literary brilliance of Woolf's work. . . . Ruhl writes with the imaginative sweep that allows Woolf's poetry to soar.---Variety

-Sarah Ruhl's smart new translation of Three Sisters] feels just right to contemporary American ears--lean, colloquial, and conversational for us and true to Chekhov's original work.---The Cincinnati Enquirer

In her stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl -is her usual unfailingly elegant,...