The Lonely Way-Intermezzo-Countess Mizzie Part 2

THE GALLANT Ca.s.sIAN (Der tapfere Ca.s.sian); a puppet play in one act; 1903 (1906).

THE LONELY WAY (Der einsame Weg); a drama in five acts; 1903 (1904).

INTERMEZZO (Zwischenspiel); a comedy in three acts; 1904 (1905).

THE GREATEST SHOW OF ALL (Zum grossen Wurstel); a burlesque in one act; 1904 (1906).

THE CALL OF LIFE (Der Ruf des Leben); a drama in three acts; 1905 (1906).

COUNTESS MIZZIE (Komtesse Mizzi); a comedy in one act; 1909 (1909).

YOUNG MEDARDUS (Der junge Medardus); a history in five acts with a prologue; 1909 (1910).

THE VAST COUNTRY (Das weite Land); a tragicomedy in five acts; 1910 (1911).

PROFESSOR BERNHARDI (Professor Bernhardi); a comedy in five acts; 1912 (1912).

THE GALLANT Ka.s.sIAN (Der tapfere Ka.s.sian); a musical comedy in one act, with music by Oscar Straus; ---- (1909).

THE VEIL OF PIERRETTE (Der Schleier der Pierrette); a comic opera in three acts, with music by Ernst von Dohnnanyi; 1909 (not published).

The figures without brackets indicate the dates of production as given in the collected edition of Arthur Schnitzler's works issued by the _S.

Fischer Verlag_, Berlin, 1912. The figures within brackets, showing the dates of publication, are taken from the twenty-fifth anniversary catalogue of the same house (Berlin, 1911), and from C. G. Kayser's "_Vollstandiges Bucher-Lexikon_" (Leipzig, 1891-1912).

"Anatol" was first published by the _Bibliographische Bureau_ (Berlin, 1893), and "A Piece of Fiction" by E. Pierson (Dresden, 1894). Both were reprinted by the _Fischer Verlag_ in 1895. The original versions of "A Piece of Fiction" and "Amours" have been considerably revised.

"Change Partners!" was printed privately in 1900, and was subsequently published by the _Wiener Verlag_, Vienna. "The Gallant Ka.s.sian" was published by Ludwig Doblinger, Leipzig.

"The Green c.o.c.katoo," "Paracelsus" and "The Life Partner" appeared in one volume with the sub-t.i.tle "Three One-act Plays." "Hours of Life,"

"The Lady With the Dagger," "End of the Carnival," and "Literature"

were published together under the t.i.tle of the first play. "The Puppet Player," "The Gallant Ca.s.sian," and "The Greatest Show of All" were brought out in a single volume under the t.i.tle of "Puppets"(_Marionetten_).

For additional bibliographical data, see "Arthur Schnitzler: a Bibliography," by Archibald Henderson (_Bulletin of Bibliography_, Boston, 1913); "The Modern Drama," by Ludwig Lewisohn (New York, 1915), and "The Continental Drama of Today," by Barrett H. Clark (New York, 1914). A good, though brief, a.n.a.lysis of Schnitzler's work is found in Dr. Lewisohn's volume.

A LIST OF FIRST PERFORMANCES OF PLAYS BY ARTHUR SCHNITZLER

ANATOL: Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna, and Lessingtheater, Berlin, Dec. 3, 1910.

A PIECE OF FICTION: Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna, Dec. 1, 1893.

PARACELSUS: Burgtheater, Vienna, March 1, 1899.

AMOURS: Burgtheater, Vienna, Oct. 9, 1895.

OUTSIDE THE GAME LAWS: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, 1896.

THE LEGACY: Burgtheater, Vienna, Nov. 30, 1898.

THE LIFE PARTNER: Burgtheater, Vienna, March 1, 1899.

THE GREEN c.o.c.kATOO: Burgtheater, Vienna, March 1, 1899.

THE VEIL OF BEATRICE: Lobetheater, Breslau, Dec. 1, 1900.

THE LADY WITH THE DAGGER: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Jan. 4, 1902.

HOURS OF LIFE: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Jan. 4, 1902.

END OF THE CARNIVAL: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Jan. 4, 1902.

LITERATURE: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Jan. 4, 1902.

THE PUPPET PLAYER: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, September, 1903.

THE GALLANT Ca.s.sIAN: Kleines Theater, Berlin, Oct. 12, 1905.

THE LONELY WAY: Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Feb. 13, 1904.

INTERMEZZO: Burgtheater, Vienna (with Joseph Kainz as _Adams_), Oct.

12, 1905.

THE GREATEST SHOW OF ALL: l.u.s.tspieltheater, Vienna, March 16, 1906.

THE CALL OF LIFE: Lessingtheater, Berlin, Feb. 24, 1906.

COUNTESS MIZZIE: Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna, January, 1909.

YOUNG MEDARDUS: Burgtheater, Vienna, Nov. 24, 1910.

THE VAST COUNTRY: Lessingtheater, Berlin, Oct. 14, 1912.

PROFESSOR BERNHARDI: Kleines Theater, Berlin, Nov. 28, 1912.

THE VEIL OF PIERRETTE: Hofopernhaus, Dresden, Jan. 22, 1910.

Single scenes from "Anatol" were given at Ischl in the Summer of 1893, and at a matinee arranged by the journalistic society "Concordia" at one of the Vienna theaters in 1909. A Czechic translation of the whole series was staged at Smichow, Bohemia, sometime during the nineties.

Three of the dialogues in "Change Partners!" were performed by members of the _Akademisch-dramatischer Verein_ at Munich in 1904.

The official records of the Burgtheater at Vienna show that, up to the end of 1912, the eight Schnitzler plays forming part of its repertory had been performed the following number of times: "Paracelsus," 12; "Amours," 42; "The Legacy," 11; "The Life Partner," 14; "The Green c.o.c.katoo," 8; "Intermezzo," 22; "Young Medardus," 43; "The Vast Country," 30.

The list of dates given above has been drawn chiefly from "Das moderne Drama," by Robert F. Arnold (Stra.s.sburg, 1912); "Das Burgtheater: statistische Ruckblick," by Otto Rub (Vienna, 1913), and the current files of _Buhne und Welt_ (Berlin). For dates of Schnitzler performances in America and England, see the Henderson bibliography previously mentioned.

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