Product Description: This 1972 text provides the student of German literature and European drama with a general introduction to Grillparzer's work. Dr Yates begins with a substantial biographical introduction which is one of the most detailed of its kind in any language...read more

Product Description: In twenty essays, prefaced by a historical introduction, this volume surveys key features of the last two hundred years of theatre in what was the principal theatrical centre of central Europe until the First World War, relating key playwrights, plays, and institutional developments to the political and intellectual context that has helped shape them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Vienna is of central importance in the whole history of drama, opera and operetta, and for more than a century was the only German-speaking city to sustain a theatrical life comparable to that of Paris or London. This is the first general history in English of modern theater in Vienna, covering the period from its beginnings in the 1770s up to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (1801-62) dominated the Viennese popular stage from the early 1830s until his retirement in 1860, both as an actor, and as the author of some 80 plays, mostly satirical comedies with farcical plots illuminated by virtuoso word play...read more

Product Description: Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal were the principal dramatists of Vienna during the period between the intellectual upheaval at the turn of the 20th century and the political upheaval of World War I. In this book W.E. Yates explores the connections, similarities and contrasts between the personalities and theatrical works of these men, showing how their different reactions to events and the critical reception of their plays shed light on Austria's shifting cultural and intellectual climate...read more

Product Description: Book by Yates, W. E.