Marriage and Divorce in the Plays of Hermann Sudermann (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631500194)

This study investigates Sudermann's plays from a socio-historical and literary-historical perspective. His plays are a response to a crisis of marriage. That crisis had its roots in the Romantic period and came to a head when the conservative Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch was introduced in 1900. Of particular significance is Es lebe das Leben (1902). The manuscripts of this play reveal that here Sudermann moved from a Realist treatment of marital difficulties to an exploration of the crisis of the realist literary system and a search for a Modernist treatment of divorce. His plays on marriage, divorce, courtship and the problems of single men and women constitute a sustained attempt to modify or at times radically to challenge the presentation of marriage in the Realist literary system.

Author: Karl Leydecker
ISBN-10: 363150019X
ISBN-13: 9783631500194
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1996
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback