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Landmarks in German Comedy

Landmarks in German Comedy

Reiss, Hans S.
Yates, W. E.
Hutchinson, Peter

Paperback

Series: Britische Und Irische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Lite, Book 35

Literary CriticismTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 3039101854
ISBN13: 9783039101856
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Feb 22 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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