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The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama - War, Death, Morality (Hardcover)
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The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama - War, Death, Morality (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three
twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living
without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass
destruction. 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 - but the
unprecedented scale of killing in the First and Second World Wars
changed the view of death, while in the Cold War the nuclear
destruction literally of everyone became a possibility. Brian
Murdoch traces the heritage of Everyman in the three plays in terms
of dramatic effect, changes in the image of Death, and especially
the problem of living with existential guilt. Death, now over-fed,
still has to be faced, but Everyman has the harder problem of
living with the awareness of human wickedness without the
possibility of salvation. All three plays have tended to be viewed
in their specific historical contexts, but by viewing them less
rigidly and as part of a long dramatic tradition, Murdoch shows
that all present a message of lasting and universal significance.
They pose directly to the theater audience questions not just of
how to cope with death, but how to cope with life.
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