The works of Ferdinand Jakob Raimund, written for the "Wiener Volkstheater" (Viennese popular theater), were an important contribution to nineteenth-century European drama. Like Shakespeare and Molière, with whom he has been compared, Raimund...

In the following essay, Prohaska studies Raimund's use of local color in his early dramas. She summarizes, "Raimund was completely the master of local parody but in his search for a form in which he could express his more ambitious concepts, he sometimes allowed his vision to blind him. "

In the following essay, Krügel explores the imagery of Raimund's Gutenstein poems and studies reflections of the tragic quality of the dramatist's life in these works.

In the following essay, Prohaska surveys Raimund's plays, noting that his greatest contribution to popular drama was the creation of convincing comic characters.