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The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
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About 128 pages (38,488 words) in 7 products |
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| Name: |
Friedrich Dürrenmatt | | Birth Date: |
January 5, 1921 | | Death Date: |
1990 | | Place of Birth: |
Konolfingen, Switzerland | | Nationality: |
Swiss | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright, author |
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 Biography of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
720 words, approx. 2.4 pages
 The works of the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) combine surface realism with an absurd and almost surreal artistic vision, expressed in an abundance of oppressive, distorted, often ironic detail. Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born... summary from source:
 Biography of Friedrich Duerrenmatt
9003 words, approx. 30 pages
 If Friedrich Dürrenmatt is a household word, it is as a dramatist. Two plays in particular have insured him lasting fame: Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit of the Old Lady, 1956; translated as The Visit, 1962), a success worldwide, including Broa... summary from source:
Biography of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
8663 words, approx. 28.9 pages
Friedrich Durrenmatt was the leading German- language dramatist of the generation after Bertolt Brecht. He dominated German, Austrian, and Swiss repertoires and was familiar to audiences throughout Europe and North and South America. His plays reach ever...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Visit Information
1,337 words, approx. 5 pages
The Visit is the title of various English translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play Der Besuch der alten Dame (literally, The Visit of the Old Lady). It is probably the best known of his works, at least in the English-speaking world. It has...
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 Variety The Visit.
10/08/2001: 933 words, approx. 3 pages THE VISIT (GOODMAN THEATER; 856 SEATS; $55 TOP) CHICAGO A Goodman Theater production of a musical in two acts with book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Directed... summary from source:
The Spectator The visit
05/05/2007: 2,952 words, approx. 10 pages I wish to write about a place of which I know everything yet nothing, where everything is familiar yet strange, a place where I feel I go too often, but never quite enough. This place is the same for everyone, only different. It...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by William Gillis
431 words, approx. 1 pages
Friedrich Dürrenmatt has written three detective novels. None of them has that aura of philosophical profundity which surrounds his other works: plays like Der Besuch der alten Dame, for instance, or prose works like his "noch mögliche Geschichte," Die Panne. But the detective novels do have a reason for being. In many of his works Dürrenmatt is concerned directly or indirectly with an almost obsessive idea: justice…. In each of the detective novels it is the main i...
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