The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality

by Brian Murdoch

Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo Everyman - Toller's Hinkemann, Borchert's The Man Outside, and Frisch's The Arsonists/Firebugs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640141170
• ISBN13: 9781640141179
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"