Social Comedy in Austria and Germany 1890-1933 - John R. P. McKenzie;McKenzie, John Richard Philip
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Social comedy in German-speaking Europe in the twentieth century is marked by a distinctively complex relationship between comic fiction and social and political context. The study examines a representative selection of important works by major German and Austrian playwrights, analysing the balance between comic convention and critical appraisal of the real world, and assesses the special contribution to the comic mode made by each of the seven writers represented; in particular, it attempts to define the writer's moral concerns in a period of unprecedented social and political change.

Produktbeschreibung
Social comedy in German-speaking Europe in the twentieth century is marked by a distinctively complex relationship between comic fiction and social and political context. The study examines a representative selection of important works by major German and Austrian playwrights, analysing the balance between comic convention and critical appraisal of the real world, and assesses the special contribution to the comic mode made by each of the seven writers represented; in particular, it attempts to define the writer's moral concerns in a period of unprecedented social and political change.
Autorenporträt
The Author: John R. P. McKenzie (born 1940) studied German Language and Literature at Manchester University. He joined the Department of German at the University of Exeter as Lecturer in 1964, became Senior Lecturer in 1980, and was Head of Department from 1991 to 1995. From 1985 to 1988 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Previous publications include a history of Weimar Germany (1972), articles on German and Austrian comedy, and the volume Stücke 26/I in the critical edition of the works of Johann Nestroy (1995).