 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Closet drama.
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Byline: PATRICK MARMION
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE .
Salisbury Playhouse Patrick Marmion
ALAS, the title is not a euphemism for masturbation - what Oscar Wilde might have called the self-love that dare not speak its name. There's little so stimulating in Peter Shaffer's 1958 drama about the middleclass Harrington family, who have recently moved from London to their weekend cottage in Suffolk. Dad is a run-ofthemill businessman boor and Mum fancies herself as a sophisticated continental type. They have engaged a young German on the run from his Nazi ...
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Paying Out Isn't the Same As Owning Up [ Corrected 5/6/02 ]
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the past without being sucked back into it. "It would be a good thing," wrote the noted German dramatist Christian Friedrich Hebbel, "if man concerned himself more with the history of his nature than with the history of his deeds." Some...
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Top shelf - The best of the fall's language books
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Great Aphorists," by James Geary (Bloomsbury, $19.95), casts the widest net: I'd never heard of Christian Friedrich Hebbel (a 19th-century German playwright, Geary's mini-profile explains), but "Obstinacy is the cheapest...
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The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Robertson focuses on texts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Moses...stereotypical images of Jews projected in the writings of Friedrich Hebbel, Ferdinand von Saar, Wilhelm Raabe, and Thomas...
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Ein weites Feld.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; It was Friedrich Hebbel who thought he could safely offer "the crown of Poland" to any reader managing to finish Adalbert Stifter's novel Nachsommer...
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Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; ...death. Isn't that Christian enough for these people...nineteenth century, Friedrich Schlegel and G. W...Eichendorff, and Hebbel all emphasized the importance...biographical reading of Friedrich Gundolf (1916). By...represents the height of Christian theology' (149...
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