Gerhart Hauptmann first attempted to express himself artistically as a sculptor. But once he had discovered his literary talents he explored, after a somewhat epigonic beginning, all possible literary forms: novellas, novels, epic and lyrical poetry,...

Gerhart Hauptmann first attempted to express himself artistically as a sculptor. But once he had discovered his literary talents he explored, after a somewhat epigonic beginning, all possible literary forms: novellas, novels, epics and lyrical poetry,...

Gerhart Hauptmann's artistic range encompasses all literary genres: the drama, the novel, the novella and shorter prose fiction, the verse epic and poetry, and the essay, as well as aphoristic and theoretical works. Equally diverse is the stylistic and...

The German dramatist and novelist Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1862-1946) is best known for his pioneering naturalistic dramas. His subsequent work treats in various forms and styles the role of the individual in an apparently deterministic...