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Nineteenth-Century German Plays: King Ottocar's Rise and Fall: The Talisman, and Agnes Bernauer

AUTHOR: Franz Grillparzer
ISBN: 0826403328
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The German Library is anew series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking...

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Nineteenth-Century German Plays: King Ottocar's Rise and Fall: The Talisman, and Agnes Bernauer
- Book Reviews, by Franz Grillparzer

Nineteenth-Century German Plays: King Ottocar's Rise and Fall: The Talisman, and Agnes Bernauer, Vol. 31

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This volume brings together plays by three distinctive Viennese playwrights: Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (1801-62), and Friedrich Hebbel (1813-63). King Ottcar's Rise and Fall, by Grillparzer, is less a tragedy than an elaborate celebration of the Hapsburgs. A very different work, Nestroy's The Talisman is a hilarious satire on the prejudice against redheads in an Austrian village. In Agnes Bernauer, Hebbel makes a plea for women's rights against a Hegelian backdrop of social change.

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