Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 386 mm x 579 mm
Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 386 mm x 579 mm
Reihe: Literary Criticism in Perspect
ISBN: 978-1-57113-064-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Critical survey of the most significant scholarly literature devoted to the neglected German playwright Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer (1890-1971) ranks with Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann as one of the most popular and significant German dramatists of the twentieth century; The Merry Vineyard (1925), marking the end of German Expressionism, his comedy The Captain of Köpenick (1931), a scathing satire of German militarism, and The Devil's General (1946), about a Nazi general and German resistance, are among the most frequently performed plays in German theatrical history. Wagener traces the development of Zuckmayer criticism from reviews to general assessments, from a biographical approach to the New Criticism and finally feminist criticism, paying particular attention tothe role of the Carl Zuckmayer Society in the critical discourse about this neglected author.
