Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-280459-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best-known plays in a new English translation
* Davies's translations are fluent and expressive, ideal for reading, study, and performance
* The introduction by Ritchie Robertson explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and to Mordernism in general
* Extraordinary level of interest in Schnitzler because of his exploration of love and sexuality, as evidenced by the recent production of The Blue Room on the London stage, starring Nicole Kidman (adapted from Round Dance/La Ronde), and Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut, adapted from the novella Dream Story/Traumnovelle. Tom Stoppard's play Undiscovered Country is an adaptation of The Vast Domain/Das weite Land
DESCRIPTION:
Flirtations * Round Dance * The Green Cockatoo * The Last Masks * Countess Mizzi * The Vast Domain * Professor Bernhardi
The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siècle Viennese decadence. Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The other plays in this collection explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, always with a sharp, non-judgemental awareness of the complexity and mystery of the psyche. Acquainted with Freud and his circle, Schnitzler probes beneath the surface of his characters to uncover emotions they barely understand. And in the tragicomedyProfessor Bernhardi, Schnitzler addresses the growing anti-Semitism of the period.
Zielgruppe
Readers, performers, and students of drama, drama in translation, modernist plays, German plays, Schnitzler. Students of German literature, comparative literature, literature in translation, drama, turn-of-the-century culture.
