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Cookie akzeptierenRinske Pritchett
The Art of Comedy and Social Critique in Nineteenth-Century Germany
- Peter Lang
- 2005
- Taschenbuch
- 244 Seiten
- ISBN 9783039102921
During the mid-nineteenth century, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer pursued a fifty- year career as a playwright and theater manager in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at a time of the transformation of court theaters and itinerant troupes into commercial establishments staffed by middle-class professionals and subject to market forces. Although she has been undervalued by some critics past and present who considered her mainly as an adapter of contemporary novels, this study shows that with her thorough knowledge of the European dramatic tradition, her skill as a playwright, and above all her professionalism she overcame institutional and gender bias to develop a form of drama that integrated the social
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