High Treason and Low Comedy : Egon Erwin Kisch’s Cabaret Plays as History and Art.
O'Keeffe, Robert T.
High Treason and Low Comedy : Egon Erwin Kisch’s Cabaret Plays as History and Art. - 1 online resource (317 pages)
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introducing Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter -- Chapter 2. Notes on the Plays: Sources and Translation -- Chapter 3. The Pursuit -- Chapter 4. Kisch and the Redl Case: Reportage into Melodrama -- Chapter 5. The Ascension of Toni Gallows to Heaven -- Chapter 6. Toni Gallows, a Real Prague Legend: Feuilleton into Comic Fantasy -- Chapter 7. Kisch's Career as Playwright -- Chapter 8. Theatrical Context: German Playwrights and Weimar Comedy and Cabaret -- Chapter 9. Afterlife of the Redl Story: Films, on the English Stage, a Slovak Novel -- Chapter 10. The Toni Gallows Story on Film, the Prague Stage Again, and Television -- Chapter 11. Transformations: History, Historical Fiction, and Fantasy -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note on earlier Kisch editions and the Kisch Gesammelte Werke -- Bibliography -- Index.
9783838273792
Electronic books.
High Treason and Low Comedy : Egon Erwin Kisch’s Cabaret Plays as History and Art. - 1 online resource (317 pages)
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introducing Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter -- Chapter 2. Notes on the Plays: Sources and Translation -- Chapter 3. The Pursuit -- Chapter 4. Kisch and the Redl Case: Reportage into Melodrama -- Chapter 5. The Ascension of Toni Gallows to Heaven -- Chapter 6. Toni Gallows, a Real Prague Legend: Feuilleton into Comic Fantasy -- Chapter 7. Kisch's Career as Playwright -- Chapter 8. Theatrical Context: German Playwrights and Weimar Comedy and Cabaret -- Chapter 9. Afterlife of the Redl Story: Films, on the English Stage, a Slovak Novel -- Chapter 10. The Toni Gallows Story on Film, the Prague Stage Again, and Television -- Chapter 11. Transformations: History, Historical Fiction, and Fantasy -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note on earlier Kisch editions and the Kisch Gesammelte Werke -- Bibliography -- Index.
9783838273792
Electronic books.