Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Deathfooldramain00hofmiala PDF
Deathfooldramain00hofmiala PDF
JOSE ECHEGARAY
The Great Galeoto
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Advent
RICHARD G. BADGER
PUBLISHER, BOSTON
Contemporary Dramatists Series
A DRAMA IN
ONE ACT BY
H
table lawyer,
UGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL,
pioneer of the symbolic
German
February i,
literature,
Oestreich-Zentral-Boden-Kredit-Bank"
is
1874.
movement in
was born in Vienna
His father, a no-
and "Vorstand des Rechts-bureau der
in
2081903
6 HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
rewrote Sophocles' Elektra in 1903, his Oedipus
Rex in 1904, and Oedipus and the Spinx in 1906.
Otway's Venice Preserved was modernised under
the title Das Gerettete Venedig, in 1904. On this
to the very dregs, the bitter cup that had been forced
to the lips of a suffering humanity. It is this that has
CLAVDIO alone.
13
14 DEATH AND THE FOOL
A wreath afloat In gilded atmosphere
Of snowy clouds with shadows deep entwining.
vain.
of the balcony.
CL AUDIO
THE VALET
To himself, fearfully.
CLAUDIO
Why who?
THE VALET
Your pardon, sir, I do not know;
It seems an army of uncanny folk.
22 DEATH AND THE FOOL
CL AUDIO
Beggars?
THE VALET
I do not know.
CL AUDIO
THE VALET
'Tis even that has just alarmed me so,
CLAUDIO
But what?
THE VALET
CL AUDIO
THE VALET
The doors and bolt them too, and all the locks
CLAUDIO
Music?
Rare music, too, that speaks unto the soul!
The fellow's nonsense has bewitched me quite,
right.
CLAUDIO.
end?
DEATH.
Arise! Cast this hereditary fear from thee!
I am no grewsome thing, no skeleton.
28 DEATH AND THE FOOL
From Venus I'm descended, Dionysos' son,
The god of Souls before thee thou dost see.
knowing,
That dreamlike doth all ripened things ensnare
Whenever overflowing feelings fill
CLAVDIO.
Short pause.
DEATH AND THE FOOL 29
DEATH.
CLAUDIO.
DEATH.
CLAUDIO.
DEATH.
CL AUDIO
vine?
DEATH
HIS MOTHER
How many tender pangs this atmosphere
For me doth hold. A faint and subtle breath
freighted,
And inexplicable anxiety.
It must be portion of that sacred state
CL AUDIO
Mother !
DEATH
Silence!
stay!
Didst thou not see, she did not want to go?
Inhuman one, why dost compel her so?
DEATH
CL AUDIO
THE GIRL
these things
fragrance
Of the humid trees! . . . All that is gone!
And now is dead all that was living then,
38 DEATH AND THE FOOL
Lies buried in our sweet love's little grave.
Ah, but 'twas beautiful, and you're to blame
For all its beauty! Then you cast me off,
A pause.
Exit.
THE MAN.
'twixt us
And still was thrice more blessed than you, who ne'er
Exit.
CLAUDIO.
Slowly rising.
DEATH
University of California
SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY
Return this material to the library
from which it was borrowed.
MOVZg $t JAIi?1T
KtVD "REC'B IS-Wl."
vwm
LD-Ugg
t
HOVZ8JS8B
"setim
NOV ^ 5 tt*
-
4T
'-