Hilda van Neck Yoder
Dramatizations of Social Change: Herman Heijermans¿Plays as Compared with Selected Dramas by Ibsen, Hauptmann and Chekhov
- Springer Netherlands
- 2014
- Taschenbuch
- 88 Seiten
- ISBN 9789400992887
Herman Heijermans (1864-1924) was convinced that he lived in an "overgangs 1 tijdperk," a transitional period. As a young man in the eighteen nineties, he rejected those values and life styles which he felt belonged to the past period dominated by the bourgeoisie, and sought out situations and a profession which would attune him to the future when, he hoped, the proletariat would 2 be in power. He left the conservative business milieu of Rotterdam in 1892 and went to Amsterdam- then teeming with radical ideas. At first, Heijermans was attracted to a group of poets, de tachtigers, who were claiming to have enlivened the stale tradition of
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