Women and German Drama

Women and German Drama
Author: Sarah Colvin
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571132741

If all the world's a stage, playwrights can theoretically be seen as in control of the world they create; this book asks to what extent women dramatists manage to use the space of the drama to reflect the world that they experience."--BOOK JACKET.

The Divided Home/land

The Divided Home/land
Author: Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1992
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Anthology of plays by leading German women writers for the first time in English

Female Roles in East German Drama, 1949-1977

Female Roles in East German Drama, 1949-1977
Author: Katherine Vanovitch
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1982
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Female roles are analyzed in terms of their function within the dramatic structure of each play and in relation to a changing social and cultural backcloth. Since the fourteen (male) authors are considered chronologically, the work affords both an introduction to the method of each dramatist and also a commentary on the development of literary and political approaches, from the foundation of the GDR until the mid-seventies. Female characters move into more diverse roles as they are increasingly defined by their own employment, political commitment and sexuality. The symbolic use of female characters as lovers, mothers and moral pedagogues, which derives from older traditions, is sustained, but with significant changes in the social expression of these roles.

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama
Author: Wendy C. Nielsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611494303

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama advances scholarship on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theater by bringing together, for the first time, female and male dramatists as well as British, German, Irish, and French writers, thinkers, actors, and philosophers. This transnational perspective allows Women Warriors in Romantic Drama to make the provocative claim that in some instances, the violence of the French Revolution--and especially women's participation in it--advances proto-feminist concerns.

Sex, Love and Prostitution in Turn-of-the-century German-language Drama

Sex, Love and Prostitution in Turn-of-the-century German-language Drama
Author: Rüdiger H. Mueller
Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Schnitzler's Reigen, Wedekind's Die Büchse der Pandora: Eine Monstretragoedie, and Thoma's Moral and Magdalena reflect the gender inequity and interaction of their time as described in contemporary non-literary texts. The works represent a creative participation in gender discourse, taking the side of social reformers who argued for a more equitable treatment of women, including prostitutes. The discrimination endured by prostitutes, however, is simply an extreme of what all women experienced. The dramas expose male oppression of females, while simultaneously portraying what women can do in order to achieve limited independence and self-determination. Women are victims rather than victimizers, and male hypocritical attitudes cause women's suffering.

DramaContemporary

DramaContemporary
Author: Carl M. Weber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

A politically charged view of German drama in the years around the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Oh What Drama!

Oh What Drama!
Author: Sigrid Scholtz Novak
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477239871

Sigrid Scholtz Novak was born October 4, 1931 in Reichenbach, East Germany. She went to school in Breslau, Silesia, and after the war in Jever and Wilhelmshaven, North Germany. She studied in London and Paris before coming to America where she completed her studies at the Johns Hopkins University. There she earned an MA in Creative Writing (1968) and the Ph.D. in German (1972). Images of Womanhood in the Plays of German Female Dramatists: 1892-1918 was accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. She has taught literature and language at Wilson College in Pennsylvania; Mary Baldwin College, Virginia; the Abadan Institute of Technology in Abadan, Iran; the McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and the State University of Ceara, Brazil. She is married to Richey A. Novak, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins.They are retired and live in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The couple has two sons, Rick and Walt. Other books by the author include: Meine Reise 1805-1812. Edition Temmen, Bremen, Germany, 1993 (in German) My Travels 1805-1812: Travel Journal of the Clothshearer Johann David Scholtz (translation), AuthorHouse 2005. Never Too Old for Adventure: Two Octogenarians Abroad. Sigrid Scholtz Novak and Richey Novak. AuthorHouse 2012 Many articles in professional journals.