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Nestroy and the Critics (Hardcover)
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Nestroy and the Critics (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
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First survey of the history of criticism on the plays of the
Viennese dramatist Nestroy. Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (1801-62)
dominated the Viennese popular stage from the early 1830s until his
retirement in 1860, both as an actor, and as the author of some 80
plays, mostly satirical comedies with farcical plots illuminated by
virtuoso word play. His reputation, however, has always been mixed.
This book, the first ever survey of the whole history of Nestroy
criticism, traces the changing critical reactions to him, beginning
with contemporary records, which show how he often offended the
morals of conservative theatre critics; his acidic wit led to his
being considered a destructive cynic, an assessment which became a
critical orthodoxy in the half-century after his death.It was not
until 1912 that he was 're-discovered' by Karl Kraus as a
linguistic genius, and in the last 40 years the rise in his
reputation has been meteoric. The story Professor Yates traces is
not just one of changing fashion, with shifts in critical
judgement, but of the struggle to establish a reliable evaluation
of Nestroy's stature - reflected in the many attempts to establish
a definitive text of his work.
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