Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold | Richard Alan Korb (essay date 1993)
Richard Alan Korb (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Korb, Richard Alan. “Der Hofmeister: Lenz's Sex Comedy.” In Space to Act: The Theater of J. M. R. Lenz, edited by Alan C. Leidner and Helga S. Madland, pp. 25-34. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993.
[In the following essay, Korb discusses how Lenz used parody and satire in Der Hofmeister to deal with taboo sexual topics.]
Sexuality and the question of genre may seem to be unlikely bedmates—unless we are considering a play in which a wife tries to make her husband jealous by chasing after the young gentleman who is supposed to marry her daughter, a play in which a young woman strips a young man, who in turn climbs into the window of another young woman, who in turn finds favor with a fine gentleman before marrying the man who climbed into her window and dishonored her. To this chain of events, add a self-castration and a sensuous farm girl who openly flirts with soldiers, then...
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