Round Dance and Other Plays

by Arthur Schnitzler, J. M. Q. Davies, Ritchie Robertson (Editor)

Overview

The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The other plays in this collection explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, always with a sharp, non-judgemental awareness of the complexity and mystery of the psyche. Acquainted with Freud and his circle, Schnitzler probes beneath the surface of his characters to uncover emotions they barely understand. And in the tragicomedy Professor Bernhardi, Schnitzler addresses the growing anti-Semitism of the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199552443
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Ritchie R. Robertson is a Professor of German at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Note on the Text	xxiv
	Select Bibliography	xxv
	A Chronology of Arthur Schnitzler	xxviii
	Flirtations	1
	Round Dance	49
	The Green Cockatoo	109
	The Last Masks	145
	Countess Mizzi	163
	The Vast Domain	195
	Professor Bernhardi	289
	Explanatory Notes	401