1. Der Zerrissene: Nestroy at the Rip.
- Author
-
North, Paul
- Subjects
- *
IMPRISONMENT , *PLAYWRITING , *DRAMATIC structure - Abstract
Presents an interpretation of Johann Nestroy's play "Der Zerissene," focusing on his style of ripping. Influences of Nestroy's imprisonment in a Vienna cell in 1836 on his plays. How confinement produces communications and how a hindrance to communication could possibly be held in reserve in communication; Characteristics of the play that show Nestroy's ripping; View that a Nestroyan Posse is a tragedy of speech in disintegration.
- Published
- 2004
- Full Text
- View/download PDF