Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama

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John Osbourne answers some difficult questions in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama , a revised and updated version of his The Naturalist Drama in Germany , now widely acknowledged as the standard introduction to the subject. BOOK COVER HALF-TITLE TITLE COPYRIGHT CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES PREFACE PART I HISTORY AND THEORY 1 THE FIRST STEPS TO NATURALISM 2 NATURALISM AND THE THEATRE: FROM HEINRICH HART TO OTTO BRAHM 3 NATURALISM IN THEORY: ARNO HOLZ 4 NATURALISM AND SOCIALISM PART II GERHART HAUPTMANN IN CONTEXT 5 VOR SONNENAUFGANG 6 DAS FRIEDENSFEST 7 EINSAME MENSCHEN 8 DIE WEBER 9 THE NATURALIST COMEDY 10 SOME LATER DRAMAS 11 THE DRAMATIC STYLE OF NATURALISM Conclusion APPENDIX I PLAYS PRESENTED BY THE FREIE BÜHNE (i) Under the direction of Otto Brahm (ii) Under the direction of Paul Schlenther (iii) Under the direction of Ludwig Fulda APPENDIX II PLAYS PRESENTED BY THE VOLKSBÜHNEN, 1890–5 (i) Die Freie Volksbühne, 1890–2 (Bruno Wille) (ii) 1892–5 (Franz Mehring) (iii) Die Neue Freie Volksbühne, 1893–5 (Bruno Wille) SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY I Dramatic texts of the Naturalist period II Other Literary and Theoretical Works by Naturalist Writers and their Contemporaries III Secondary Sources INDEX