Landmarks in German Comedy
Produktnummer:
1820c51d74fbc5443d85a64ab86dc8b310
Themengebiete: | Aufsatzsammlung Austrian Comedy Comedy Deutsch German German Comedy Geschichte 1658-1982 Hans Hutchinson Komödie |
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Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 22.02.2006 |
EAN: | 9783039101856 |
Auflage: | 1 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 248 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Herausgeber: | Hutchinson, Peter |
Verlag: | Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers |
Produktinformationen "Landmarks in German Comedy"
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. The essays are all written by specialists in the field and were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.

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