Die doppelboedigkeit der gesellschaftlichen zustaende in Goethes ''Die mitschuldigen'
Despite Goethe's later denials, the play Die Mitschuldigen meets the demands of the farce genre: to serve the audience a series of turbulent diversions and complications in quick succession, to show some burlesque elements and to make the audience short to produce nothing more than lighthearted...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | German |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-1999
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| Summary: | Despite Goethe's later denials, the play Die Mitschuldigen meets the demands of the farce genre: to serve the audience a series of turbulent diversions and complications in quick succession, to show some burlesque elements and to make the audience short to produce nothing more than lighthearted laughter which is free from any moral doubts. Since the goal of farce is to provoke laughter by continuously introducing new comic situations, Die Mitschuldigen can be seen as a play in which the scenes are constructed according to the needs of this genre. However, while harmless chance complications, situation comedy and many other laughter-evoking devices are essential to the play, it is nevertheless to describe Die Mitschuldigen as a straightforward farce; for instant the language is forced into the strict pattern of alexandrian verse; scepticism about society as a whole is a vital structural element, and characters should be viewed critically for their respective greed, curiosity, dubious motivations, mutual deception and accusation. In this study I argue that Die Mitschuldigen presents a microcosm of the bourgeois society with which it finds fault. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) |
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| ISBN: | 0612379566 9780612379565 |