The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann

Author: Gerhart Hauptmann

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022878358

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This book is a compilation of Gerhart Hauptmann's later dramas in prose, which include The Maidens of the Mount, Griselda, and Gabriel Schillings Flight. These plays probe the depths of human emotion and reveal the harsh realities of life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Vol. 6
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Vol. 6

Author: Gerhart Hauptmann

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9781527707191

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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Vol. 6: Later Dramas in Prose In Griselda Hauptmann employs once more the method of psychological interpretation which he had used so triumphantly in Henry of Ami. The legend of Patient Grissel has, as it stands, no reality or humanity of motive to the modern mind. The figures are like medieval illuminations with rigid limbs and unearthly eyes. Hanptxnann causes them to melt into life. It is possible to contend, to be sure, that the motim which, in the play, are the springs of the action, are rather modern; that Ulrich's absorbing 1m of Griselda, which makes himjealonsofhisetssatouchoithepatho logical. Itiseqnally iairtoamue, ontheother hand, that human nature has known no great change thromthcages, evenasthemldahoutnshss becneonstanztlnltschaucterwithinthelhnitsof human history. Only neither literature nor science had, until quite recently. Cultivated either the gift of observation or the capacity of making an exact toca'd. Upon this assumption Hauptmann's art ingmcldah' isassoundinmethodasitlsadmirahle in e oct. There remains Gabriel Schilling's Flight, the mostnotahleot'theselsterplaysinprose. The strictly modem problem of the relation of the sexes especially as it affects the intellectual worker has never been long out of Hanptmann's mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.