Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvii).
Contents
Flirtations -- Round dance -- The green cockatoo -- The last masks -- Countess Mizzi -- The vast domain -- Professor Bernhardi.
Note
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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.