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'Burgerliches Trauerspiel' or bourgeois tragedy is the most popularly acclaimed and critically documented form of German drama. From the mid-eighteenth century, some of Germany's greatest dramatists turned away from classical subjects to focus instead on the intricate internecine struggles of the middle-class family. This book views bourgeois tragedy and related forms of 'family' drama as depicting the enactment of a threat to stability and domestic order, organised so that the threat is defeated and the anxieties of the predominantly middle-class audience relieved; the author argues that these threats are represented as emanating from female figures who oppose and challenge the authority and order of a father or husband. Texts examined include Klinger's Sturm und Drang, Goethe's Stella and Die naturliche Tochter, Kleist's 'uber das Marionettentheater' and Hebbel's Maria Magdalene.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Tragedy in Paradise
• Subtitle: Family and Gender Politics in German Bourgeois Tragedy 1750-1850
• Author: Gail K. Hart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 150
• EAN: 9781571130372
• ID: 04818505
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 579 × 386 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 1996

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