Raimund and Vienna
A Critical Study of Raimund's Plays in their Viennese Setting
Dorothy Prohaska(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 2. January 1971
Book
Hardback
219 pages
978-0-521-07789-7 (ISBN)
Description
Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836) was a noted comic actor in the tradition of the Viennese Popular Theatre. He wrote plays to suit the talents of his ensemble at the Leopoldstadt comedy theatre and to entertain the Viennese community, but a powerful ambition to rise above the merely local drove him to develop the conventional dramatic forms beyond their traditional limits. Dorothy Prohaska examines his plays, and discusses their local characteristics as well as their individuality. She is closely informed about the Vienna of the time, and many sections of the book, showing in detail how the plays draw on contemporary life, are full of colourful detail about the city itself. She reveals the complexity of Raimund's development as a playwright within the popular tradition and assesses his achievement as an original dramatist.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Weight
439 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-07789-7 (9780521077897)
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Content
List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Ferdinand Raimund 1790-1836: an outline of the events of Raimund's life against the background of Vienna and its theatres; 2. Entertaining the community: an explanation of specific local allusions in the dialogue of Raimund's plays and a discussion of their significance; 3. The shifting scene: an examination of setting and action in Raimund's plays and a discussion of the changing emphasis placed on local colour; 4. From local clown to comic character: an examination of changing characterization-patterns in Raimund's plays and an evaluation of his characters; 5. The mirror and the image: an interpretation of the changing mood of Raimund's plays in relation to the mood of the city; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Map of Vienna in the 1820s.