{"product_id":"the-fortunes-of-everyman-in-twentieth-century-german-drama-9781640141179","title":"The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeath still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of \u003ci\u003eEveryman \u003c\/i\u003ethe familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo \u003ci\u003eEveryman -\u003c\/i\u003e Toller's \u003ci\u003eHinkemann\u003c\/i\u003e, Borchert's \u003ci\u003eThe Man Outside\u003c\/i\u003e, and Frisch's\u003ci\u003e The Arsonists\/Firebugs -\u003c\/i\u003e but the unprecedented scale of killing in the First and Second World Wars changed the view of death, while in the Cold War the nuclear destruction literally of everyone became a possibility. Brian Murdoch traces the heritage of \u003ci\u003eEveryman\u003c\/i\u003e in the three plays in terms of dramatic effect, changes in the image of Death, and especially the problem of living with existential guilt. Death, now over-fed, still has to be faced, but Everyman has the harder problem of living with the awareness of human wickedness without the possibility of salvation.\u003cbr\u003eAll three plays have tended to be viewed in their specific historical contexts, but by viewing them less rigidly and as part of a long dramatic tradition, Murdoch shows that all present a message of lasting and universal significance. They pose directly to the theater audience questions not just of how to cope with death, but how to cope with life.","brand":"Brian Murdoch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268266045691,"sku":"9781640141179","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781640141179.jpg?v=1772485784","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-fortunes-of-everyman-in-twentieth-century-german-drama-9781640141179","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}