Book Cover
E-book
Author Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931

Title Round dance and other plays / Arthur Schnitzler ; translated by J.M.Q. Davies ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxx, 406 pages)
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents Flirtations -- Round dance -- The green cockatoo -- The last masks -- Countess Mizzi -- The vast domain -- Professor Bernhardi
Summary This is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best known plays in a new English translation. They explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of late twentieth-century Vienna, and to Modernism in general. - ;Flirtations * Round Dance * The Green Cockatoo * The Last Masks * Countess Mizzi * The Vast Domain * Professor Bernhardi. The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de si--egrave--;cle Viennese dec
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvii)
Notes Print version record
Subject Manners and customs
SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama
Vienna (Austria) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
Subject Austria -- Vienna
Genre/Form Plays.
Drama
Form Electronic book
Author Davies, J. M. Q.
Robertson, Ritchie
ISBN 9780191516948
0191516945
Other Titles Plays. Selections. English