round dance and other plays sep 2004

[...]... (London, ) My Youth in Vienna, trans Catherine Hutter (London, ) Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas, trans Margret Schaefer (Chicago, ) Plays, trans William Cunningham and David Palmer (Evanston, Ill., ): includes Anatol The Road into the Open, trans Roger Byers (Berkeley, ) The Round Dance and Other Plays, trans Charles Osborne (Manchester, ) Selected Short Fiction, trans... Reading of Das weite Land’, Modern Austrian Literature, /– (), – Thompson, Bruce, Schnitzler’s Vienna: Image of a Society (London, ) Wisely, Andrew C., Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Honor and Duelling (New York, ) Yates, W E., ‘Changing Perspectives: The “doppelte Sexualmoral” in  and  Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt and Liebelei’, in Hanne Castein and Alexander Stillmark... with Adele Sandrock as Christine July and August: journey to Scandinavia; visits Ibsen February: completion of Round Dance (Reigen)  September: Marie Reinhard bears AS a stillborn child                 xxix  March: première of The Green Cockatoo (Der grüne Kakadu) in the Burgtheater (with two other one-acters, Paracelsus and The... Hofmannsthal, and the Austrian Theatre (New Haven, ) Cultural and Historical Background Barea, Ilsa, Vienna: Legend and Reality (London, ) Beller, Steven, Vienna and the Jews, –: A Cultural History (Cambridge, ) Finney, Gail, Women in Modern Drama: Freud, Feminism, and European Theater at the Turn of the Century (Ithaca, NY, ) Frevert, Ute, Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural... outer to inner experience and must take a psychological turn Hofmannsthal’s lyrical dramas and reflective poems illustrated this programme, as did Schnitzler’s studies of indecision and complex motivation The psychological insights in Schnitzler’s stories and plays derive also from the erotic experience which bulks so hugely in the diaries The phrase ‘sweet maid’, used in Round Dance, first served Schnitzler... on an army officer, it unleashes a scandal, resulting in AS’s being cashiered as a reserve officer ( June )  January: première of Living Hours (Lebendige Stunden), a cycle of one-act plays including The Last Masks (Die letzten Masken)  August: birth of Olga’s and AS’s son Heinrich  August: marries Olga First publication of Round Dance by the Wiener Verlag Round Dance banned in Germany Publication... outbreak of the First World War finds AS and his family on holiday in Switzerland; AS notes: ‘World War World ruin Prodigious and appalling news’ (diary,  August)  December: first Austrian production of Professor Bernhardi in the Deutsches Volkstheater  December: first performance of Round Dance in the Kleines Schauspielhaus in Berlin  February: first performance of Round Dance in Vienna in the chamber theatre... included the versatile critic, playwright, and novelist Hermann Bahr, the precocious poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Felix Salten (later famous for writing both the animal tale Bambi and the classic pornographic novel Josefine Mutzenbacher which was often misattributed to Schnitzler), and numerous others While their antagonist Kraus championed the vigorous and masculine spirit of Berlin Naturalism,... the police, the Viennese city administration, and the Austrian parliament’, in Sander L Gilman and Jack Zipes (eds.), The Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, – (New Haven, ), – Stern, Guy, ‘From Austria to America via London: Tom Stoppard’s Adaptations of Nestroy and Schnitzler’, in Wolfgang Elfe, James Hardin, and Gunther Holst (eds.), The Fortunes of German... series of scandals And in The Vast Domain (Das weite Land) the suicide of Korsakow, another character who dominates the play in  xiii which he does not appear, is discussed in an atmosphere of tennis doubles and sexual pairing Schnitzler differs from his contemporaries in facing the modern situation in which the decline of religious ritual has left death exposed as a monstrous and inadmissible . philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers. OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS ARTHUR SCHNITZLER Round Dance and. of literary modernism, and so satirical in content as to call forth censorship, lawsuits, and denunciation. Foremost among them are his cyclical drama Round Dance (Reigen, written –) and the story Lieutenant. whenever and wherever the conflicts of classes and races, national chauvinism and religious fanaticism prevail, he should and must be an apostle of humanity, acting in support of international peace and