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.
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