Castle Wetterstein

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-55481-425-1
Verlag: Broadview Press

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

At the beginning stands Wedekind." So wrote German literary critic Rudolf Kayser in 1917 of the new forms of expressionist theater that were then becoming central to German culture. In Schloss Wetterstein (Castle Wetterstein), one of his most important plays, Wedekind offers a satirical take on marriage and the bourgeois nuclear family; at the play's center is a rebellious teenage girl who turns to prostitution after her upbringing in an unstable household. The play was published in 1912, but a performance ban was put into effect immediately, and continued until after Wedekind's death.This new edition offers a fresh translation, an illuminating brief introduction, and a selection of background materials that help to set the play in context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wedekind, Frank

Johnston, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction
- Castle Wetterstein In Context
- from Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
- from Frank Wedekind, The Censors. Theodicee in One Act (1907)
- from Frank Wedekind, Letter to Georg Brandes
- Images

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Johnston's other books include an acclaimed translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Now retired, Johnston was for many years a professor at Vancouver Island University.Nisha Kommattam is currently Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.