...Edward Diller Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 HUMAN DIGNITY IN A MATERIALISTIC SOCIETY FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT AND BERTOLT BRECHT By EDWARDDILLER Although it has been claimed that Friedrich Durrenmatt intended...

...Sister Corona Sharp Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 STRINDBERG AND DURRENMATT THE DYNAMICS OF PLAY By SISTERCORONA SHARP The influence of Strindberg on modern drama is well known. His concern...

...Donald G. Daviau; Harvey I. Dunkle Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 FRIEDRICH DURRENMATTS DER BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME A PARABLE OF WESTERN SOCIETY IN TRANSITION By DONALDG. DAVIAUand HARVEYI. DUNKLE...

... with a fellow scientist who speaks a different tongue. The language of science binds them, but the physicist has little inclination to make any contact with the society ~llichhas accepted him, and this is part of his guilt. Durrenmatt’s protagonist renounces communication because he fears...

...Margaret Scanlan Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 TERROR AS USUAL IN FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT'S THE ASSIGNMENT By MARGARETSCANLAN The history of terrorism has been entwined with the history of the novel ever...

...- erned by the banality of chance. In Durrenmatt’s Bus Versprechen all these trends are finally actualized. The detective-hero Matthai-demoniacal by virtue of his faith in the rational intelligibility of events-solves the mystery, but is tragically thwarted by a stupid chance occurrence. Ambiguity...

... only a few-Hof’mannsthal, Orton, Middleton, Chekhov, Strindberg, Gorky, Chi-au- doux, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sheridan, the Seroiid Sh~pIierd~’Plq, PI Durrenmatt, and innumerable recent stage pieces. There are wonderful anal- yses of plays that fall between genres, such as Wilde’s Lady...

... at the peculiar capitalist-socialist mixture of Swiss institutions, he rather kept them at arm’s length. He met the young Max Frisch and tried to remold his dramaturgic concepts. But ultimately the fledgling writer struggled free from the peremptory Brechtian influence, as did Durrenmatt later...

...) is softened somewhat by Friedrich Durrenmatt’s comment: “Brecht . . . der ja iiberhaupt, sieht man genauer hin, in vielem mit Schiller zu vergleichen ist” (Friedrich Schiller, eine Rede [Zurich, 19601, p. 28). SDurrenmatt, while ointing out that one cannot separate Brecht’s ideology from his...

.... But this commitment itself becomes a whim in a world gov- erned by the banality of chance. In Durrenmatt’s Bus Versprechen all these trends are finally actualized. The detective-hero Matthai-demoniacal by virtue of his faith in the rational intelligibility of events-solves the mystery, but is tragically...

...-At Last Ernst Loeb, “Oskar Maria Graf Weltweite Provinz eines Einzel- gingers”; Adolph Wegener, “Fussnoten zu den Welten Peter Handkes”; Andres Briner, “Zu Gottfried von Einems Durrenmatt-Oper Der Besuch der alten Dame”; Albert K. Schmitt, “Ulrich Plenzdorfs Die neuen Leiden...

... it for murder does not refute but rather reveals the existence of moral 23 “Nothing Left but Parody: Friedrich Durrenmatt and Tom Stoppard,” TJ,32 (lYHO), 90- 91. More recently Michael Hinden commits much the same error in ‘fjumpen: Stoppard and the Theater of Exhaustion,” TCL, 27 (l98l). 1-15...