Maria Magdalena (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Friedrich Hebbel
- First Published: 1844
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Anthony, Anthony’s wife, Clara, Karl, Leonard, Friedrich
- Genres: Realism, Domestic realism, Drama
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Literature, Reality, Tragedy, Weddings, Germany or German people, Evil
- Locales: Germany
The Story:
After a long illness, from which she was not expected to recover, Anthony’s wife, a woman in her fifties, felt that she had been given another chance to make herself worthy of heaven. To show her gratitude for this second chance, she dressed herself in her wedding gown, which was also to be her shroud, and went to church the first Sunday morning she was able. Before she went, she and her daughter Clara had a heart-to-heart talk, during which the mother disclosed her fears about her son Karl, who spent too much time drinking and playing and not enough time working...
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