The Beaver Coat (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerhart Hauptmann
- First Published: 1893
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: The outskirts of Berlin
- Principal Characters: Frau Wolff, Julius Wolff, Leontine, Wulkow, Krüger, Doctor Fleischer, Von Wehrhahn, Motes
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Satire, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Nature, Nineteenth century, Theft, Germany or German people, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Peasantry or peasants, Berlin
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
The Story:
To the suburban shack of the Wolff family, which Julius and Frau Wolff were paying off on the installment plan, their older daughter Leontine returned with complaints that her employers, the Krügers, had sent her out for wood late at night. Leontine had been hired out to the rich family in the neighborhood to earn enough money to start a stage career, because Frau Wolff thought that her appearance would assure her success. Although Julius wanted to send the girl back to the Krügers immediately, Frau Wolff seized the opportunity to devise a plan to steal the wood...
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