--- Gerard Lowe <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> Datum: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:33:39 +0000
> Von: Gerard Lowe <[log in to unmask]>
> Betreff: Book announcement: Macht des Weibes: Zwei
> histori sche Tragödien von Marie von
> Ebner-Eschenbach.
> An: [log in to unmask]
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The MHRA is delighted to announce the publication of
> Professor
> Susanne Kord's edition of two historical tragedies
> by Marie von
> Ebner-Eschenbach.
>
> Macht des Weibes: Zwei historische Tragodien von
> Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
>
> Ed. by Susanne Kord.
>
> London: Modern Humanities Research Assn, 2005. 264
> pp.
> (MHRA Critical Texts, 4.)
> ISBN : 0-947623-69-8 £12.99, /US$24.99.-
>
> http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/kord2.html
>
> Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, now famous for her
> novels, aphorisms,
> novellas, and diary writing, saw herself as a
> playwright, wrote
> exclusively dramas during the first 30 years of her
> literary career,
> and was extremely ambitious: in her own words, she
> was aiming to
> become ‘the Shakespeare of the nineteenth century.’
> She authored
> twenty-six plays, which were reviewed contemptuously
> by her
> contemporaries and ignored by posterity.
>
> The plays selected for this volume are Ebner’s two
> great historical
> dramas, Maria Stuart in Schottland (1860) and Marie
> Roland (1867).
> Both plays portray the lives of great women from
> history, one a
> queen, the other a revolutionary, focussing on the
> historical moment
> of the decision that led to their respective
> execution. Both plays
> are indebted to the dramatic work of Friedrich
> Schiller, whose play
> Maria Stuart (1800) Ebner read as positing
> femininity and the right
> to political action as opposites in terms.
>
> Susanne Kord is Professor of German at University
> College London.
> -------------------------------
>
> For more information please refer to our website at
> http://
> www.criticaltexts.mhra.org.uk or
> send an email to [log in to unmask]
>
>
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