Ödön von Horváth, Ein Sklavenball/ Pompej, Band 2
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published: 2015
Language: ger
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9783110436730
Description: The farce Ein Sklavenball mit Gesang und Tanz [A Slave Ball with song and dance] and the comedy that was developed out of it Pompeji [Pompei] (both 1937) are the last two dramas completed by Ödön von Horváth. The present edition is the first to cover the immense wealth of source material on the genesis of both works. In addition, this edition puts especial emphasis on the intertextual traces left by Horváth?s reading of the comedies of the Roman poet T. M. Plautus.
Notes: Austrian Science Fund PUB 224

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