German-language Comedy: A Critical Anthology
- ISBN-10
- 0945636245
- ISBN-13
- 9780945636243
- Category
- English drama (Comedy)
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Author
- Bert Cardullo
Description
This is the first English collection of the greatest comedies written in German from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries. Each of the translated comedies is placed in historical context and in relationship to its author's life as well as his other plays, and each is followed by a select bibliography of English-language criticism and interpretation.
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